AMK-THKH Newsletter Issue 2 of 2011 - Thye Hua Kwan Hospital

Participants at the seminar on wound managementContinuing Medical Education SeminarsWound Management:Getting it rightA simple procedure such as wounddressing may be challenging for nursesand attaining the right technique isimportant to avoid any deterioration inthe healing of patients’ wounds. Thisformed the focus of the ContinuingMedical Education Seminar on WoundManagement and Therapeutics byAssoc. Prof Edward Poon, Director ofNursing, AMK-THKH.The 110 participants at the seminarlearnt about the different types ofcommon wounds as well as variouswound management methods.Besides sharing his expertise onwound management, Assoc. Prof Poonalso shared on bed and oral woundmanagement of patients.“It was an interesting session wherebywe learnt wound identification andmanagement techniques. The segment onmanaging frequent bed sores in particularprovided useful insights into how wecan better care for our patients,” saidMs Erlyn M Bugaoan, one of our staffnurses at the talk.Prescribing Medicinefor the ElderlyDr David Yong, Senior Aged CarePhysician for Geriatric Medicine,Changi General Hospital spoke onPrescribing Medication for the Elderlyat the Hospital’s Continuing MedicalEducation (CME) Seminar recently.Dr Yong described potentially high risksituations whereby medication maybe wrongly prescribed to the elderly.He then moved on to focus on theprinciples that medical officers as wellas nurses must take into considerationwhen prescribing and administeringdrugs to elderly patients.His use of thought-provoking casestudies and statistics engaged theaudience throughout the talk. Thetalk not only attracted doctors andnurses, but also therapists, medicalsocial workers as well as the Hospital’sadministrative staff.Said Dr Gilbert Er, one of the participantsat the seminar, “It was an interesting talkthat reminded us about the importanceof checking patients’ medical history toascertain that the drugs we prescribe arecompatible with those that our patients arealready taking.”Speaker, Assoc. Prof Edward Poon, Director of Nursing at AMK-THKHParticipants listening attentively to Dr David YongAMK - THKH REACHING OUT16