Tissue viability
risk assessment is very important as part of individual’s health and wellbeing.
It is also an organisational requirement and our duty of care. Most of the
individuals in our service provision are aged and vulnerable to immunity. Some
of them are with no mobility and lack of mental capacity. As part of our duty
of care, we must carry out duties which concerns to individual’s health and
wellbeing.
Individuals with
existing skin conditions may exacerbate if we do not regularly monitor or
review the tissue viability risk assessment. Individuals may require further
treatment which cannot be identified, if we do not review tissue viability risk
assessment regularly. Failure to carry out tissue viability risk assessment or review
or monitor existing risk assessment can result in safeguarding issue.
