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Optimal Nutrition for Wound Healing

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Optimal Nutrition for Wound Healing is a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course designed to help healthcare professionals understand the essential role nutrition plays in tissue repair, wound recovery, immune function, and overall patient outcomes. The course explores how nutritional deficiencies, poor glycaemic control, dehydration, and inadequate caloric intake may delay wound healing and increase the risk of infection and complications. Wound healing is a complex physiological process that requires adequate energy, protein, vitamins, minerals, and hydration. Malnutrition is a major risk factor for impaired healing, particularly in older adults, patients with chronic disease, surgical patients, and individuals with pressure injuries or diabetes.

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Learning Outcomes

What you'll learn

  • Understand the relationship between nutrition and wound healing.
  • Assess patients’ nutritional status and identify malnutrition risks.
  • Recognise the importance of adequate calorie and protein intake for tissue repair.
  • Understand the role of micronutrients in wound healing and immune function.
  • Discuss the importance of hydration and blood glucose management.
  • Identify patients who may require nutritional supplementation.
  • Understand the impact of chronic disease and malnutrition on healing outcomes.
  • Recognise when referral to a dietitian or specialist service is appropriate.
  • Develop practical nutrition-focused care strategies for wound management.
  • Promote multidisciplinary approaches to improving wound healing outcomes.

Modules

Module 1

Understanding Wound Healing and Nutrition

Module 2

Nutritional Assessment and Identifying Malnutrition

Module 3

Calories, Protein, and Energy Requirements

Module 4

Micronutrients and Hydration in Wound Healing

Module 5

Blood Glucose Management and Chronic Disease

Module 6

Referral Pathways and Multidisciplinary Care

Module 7

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Frequently Asked Questions

Nutrition provides the energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals needed for tissue repair and immune function.

Protein is essential for tissue repair, collagen formation, and recovery.

Poor blood glucose control may impair circulation, increase infection risk, and delay healing.

Weight loss, poor appetite, muscle wasting, fatigue, and delayed wound healing may indicate malnutrition.

Hydration supports circulation, nutrient delivery, and skin integrity.

Referral may be appropriate when patients have malnutrition, poor intake, complex wounds, or specialised nutritional needs.