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Clinical Skills Laboratory — Surgical Wound & Drain
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Interactive clinical skill · HLTENN043

Know your drains — care for the wound, manage the drainage, and know what's your role.

A realistic equipment trainer and care simulator for surgical wounds and drains: closed suction (active) and Penrose (passive) drains, the wound and the drain site. Identify them, empty and re-vacuum, assess the wound, and understand shortening and removal.

Learning outcomes

You will be developing skills to:

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Scope: Drain insertion is a surgical / medical procedure and is not within enrolled-nurse scope (shown for understanding only). Shortening and removal are performed on a specific order and only within the clinician's competency, per policy. Care of the wound and drain — emptying, measuring, re-establishing the vacuum, monitoring, dressing within scope, recognising complications and escalating — is the EN focus, in consultation with the RN. For a suction drain, release the vacuum before removal.

Education-only tool. It does not replace supervised practice, facility policy, manufacturer instructions or professional judgement, and does not guarantee any outcome. Drain types, vacuum-recharge methods, shortening / removal protocols and dressings vary — always follow local policy and manufacturer instructions.
Station 1 · Hero screen

Drain explorer — look at & learn

Tap each item to identify it and see what it does — the closed suction drain (compress the bellows to charge the vacuum), the Penrose drain, the surgical wound and the drain site.

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Station 2

Knowledge primer

Work through the concept cards, then pass the check to unlock the practical stations. Protocols and products vary — always follow local policy and manufacturer instructions.

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Knowledge check
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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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Aggregate score
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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

Surgical wound & drain care

HLTENN043 · Clinical skills simulation
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This confirms that
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has completed all stations of the interactive surgical wound & drain simulation at a satisfactory standard, meeting every critical safety item — aseptic emptying and re-vacuum, wound / site assessment, correct scope for shortening & removal (release the vacuum first), and escalation of complications.
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Date
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Critical items
All met ✓
Skills-ready code
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Trainers can verify: OBA-DRN-YYMMDD + 4-char checksum from date & score. Education-only; no registration or employment outcome is implied.
Almost there

Not yet skills-ready

You need all stations completed with every critical item met and an aggregate ≥ 85%. Your current aggregate is {{ scorePct }}%. Revision pointers:

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