Luxmi Dhoonman, Northwick Park Hospital
Luxmi Dhoonman
Nurse Consultant, Tissue Viability
Northwick Park Hospital

Luxmi Dhoonmoon is a Nurse Consultant Tissue Viability working for London North West University Healthcare (LNWH) NHS trust. Luxmi completed her BSc (Tissue Viability Pathway) in 2010 and MSc Advanced Practice in 2013 at St Georges University of London and is currently enrolled on a PhD in Nursing studies. She is also a Professional Nurse Advocate and Queen’s Nurse. Passionate about wound care and with a passion for addressing inequity across all types of wounds she introduced the Skin tone tool across LNWH NHS trust to reduce harm across all skin tones and increase inclusivity in all wound assessments thus delivering equitable wound and PU care. She also leads a team of Tissue Viability Nurses. Luxmi won the Journal of Wound Care award for Best Clinical research in 2015 for making a difference in patients with chronic wounds while using topical oxygen therapy. She contributed to several case studies, best practice statements and research to enhance clinical evidence forming the future of practice. Luxmi has published several clinical evaluations on patient care and improvement and recently authored an article in Independent Nurse on Long Covid and self-care. She recently co-authored a best practice document with Wounds UK to reflect assessment of dark skin tone in practice. Luxmi's aim is to develop her clinical research further to improve public health and lower limb care in the community.