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Clinical Skills Laboratory — Pressure-Area Care
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Interactive clinical skill · HLTENN043

Know the surfaces and aids — assess the risk, offload the pressure, and never drag or rub.

A realistic equipment explorer and pressure-injury-prevention simulator: identify the support surfaces, cushions and repositioning aids — then assess risk, inspect the skin, apply the SSKIN bundle, reposition safely on a 30° tilt with a slide sheet, offload heels, and recognise and escalate a pressure injury.

Learning outcomes

You will be developing skills to:

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Three "never" rules: never use a ring/donut cushion (it concentrates pressure around the rim and reduces perfusion); never massage or rub bony prominences or reddened skin (it causes further tissue damage); never drag a person — use a slide sheet/hoist (shear and friction injure skin and are a manual-handling risk). Risk assessment, skin inspection, the prevention bundle, aids per the care plan, repositioning and escalation are within EN scope, in consultation with the RN.

Education-only tool. It does not replace supervised practice, facility policy, manufacturer instructions or professional judgement, and does not guarantee any outcome. Risk tools, surfaces, repositioning frequency and products vary — always follow the risk assessment, care plan, manufacturer's instructions and local policy.
Station 1 · Hero screen

Surfaces & aids explorer — look at & learn

Tap each item to identify it and see what it does — support surfaces (with the alternating-air cells cycling), chair cushions (including the ring cushion flagged DO NOT USE), repositioning aids, a live pressure map that changes with position, a person & skin view, and pressure-injury staging awareness. Use the interact controls on each.

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Station 2

Knowledge primer

Work through the concept cards, then pass the check to unlock the practical stations. Tools, surfaces and frequencies vary — always follow the risk assessment, care plan and local policy.

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Knowledge check
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Station complete
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Station 6

Debrief & marking guide

Your performance mapped to the HLTENN043 marking items. Each is Satisfactory or Not Yet Satisfactory; critical safety items must be met. Aggregate is based on first-attempt accuracy.

Marking items
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✓ Plus — done well
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Δ Delta — to review
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No corrections needed — every decision correct on the first attempt.
Consequence trace — errors and why they matter
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Skills-ready
Certificate of completion

Pressure-area care

HLTENN043 · Clinical skills simulation
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This confirms that
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has completed all stations of the interactive pressure-area care simulation at a satisfactory standard, meeting every critical safety item — risk assessment, thorough skin inspection (including darker skin tones and devices), an appropriate working surface, heels offloaded, safe repositioning on a 30° tilt with a slide sheet, the three "never" rules, and recognition and escalation of a pressure injury.
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Date
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Skills-ready code
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Trainers can verify: OBA-PAC-YYMMDD + 4-char checksum from date & score. Education-only; no registration or employment outcome is implied.
Almost there

Not yet skills-ready

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