Pressure Injuries and Pressure Care

  • Author: Leigh Kelly
  • Level: Introduction
  • Study time: 48 minutes
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Lesson series
Pressure injuries are painful, preventable wounds that can develop in just hours if not managed properly. This course teaches you how to identify, assess, and prevent pressure injuries using best care practices. Learn about the skin’s role, risk factors, assessment tools, and the importance of movement, hydration, and nutrition in pressure injury prevention.
  • Video time: 48 minutes
  • Quiz: 1
  • Assessment: 1
Lesson series

Why this course is important?


Preventing pressure injuries is easier than treating them. Understanding how they develop—from prolonged pressure, friction, or shearing—is crucial for providing quality care. Recognising early warning signs and using assessment tools like the Braden Scale can help prevent serious wounds. Regular repositioning, proper nutrition, hydration, and using pressure-relieving aids all play a role. Your responsibility is to follow care plans, document observations, and take proactive steps to ensure those in your care stay safe and comfortable.
Meet the instructor

Leigh Kelly

Leigh Kelly is a New Zealand Registered Nurse who has been working with the elderly and disabled since 1974. Her ADN focused on young physically disabled.

She has been a Charge Nurse at Kenepuru and Greenlane Hospitals Continuing Care Wards, owned her own dementia specific rest home and worked and managed rest homes.

She also has vast experience as a RN in continuing care facilities.
Patrick Jones - Course author