Irene Cooke describes an audit of the tissue viability status of nursing home residents receiving support from a tissue viability nursing service.

Irene Cooke RGN, SCM, DNCert, CPT, NPCert. is a Tissue Viability Nurse, Wirral & West Cheshire Community NHS Trust and is presently on secondment as a District Nurse Tutor at the University of Liverpool.

Article accepted for publication December 1999.