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Module 1 | Master the Most Challenging Wounds: The 50 BEST Solutions to Dramatically Improve Wound Healing

Wound care has become increasingly complex! There are literally hundreds of wound care product and treatment options to be considered for patients. How can you feel confident that you are recommending the BEST option for the patient’s wound presentation?

Does this real patient scenario sound familiar…

Mrs. K is a 72-year-old female with chronic edema of both lower legs. She refused to use compression stockings, to later experience inflammation and weeping blisters. When Mrs K was admitted to the hospital for worsening heart failure, orders were given for TED stockings and Vaseline gauze to the blistered areas.

The provider wasn’t aware that those interventions were contraindicated. Would you feel confident to suggest a one-sided silicone mesh to protect the blistered areas instead? Or application of two layers of a compression sleeve, if her physician felt the return of fluid to her system would not worsen congestive heart failure symptoms? Or daily chlorhexidine soap wash to both lower legs to help prevent infection?

National wound care expert, Joan Junkin RN, MSN, will demonstrate best practice use of a variety of wound products and treatments, including monofilament pads for mechanical debridement of biofilm and slough, negative pressure disposable options and tools available to greatly simplify use of compression for lower extremity edema.

She will break down the very latest coming from research to support your own complex patient care decisions. 

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Objectives

  1. Catalogue products that provide antimicrobial protection for wounds without causing toxicity.
  2. Differentiate pros and cons of five methods of debridement.
  3. Appraise off-loading devices available for diabetic foot ulcers.
  4. Appraise the tools available for easy application of compression stockings.
  5. Anticipate challenges for choosing appropriate solutions for an intact seal when using negative pressure wound therapy.
  6. Examine application techniques for disposable negative pressure wound therapy devices.
  7. Defend the use of modalities for arterial insufficiency wounds based on research results provided.
  8. Evaluate lower extremity pumps safe for use with arterial insufficiency.

Outline

Infection Control Solutions: Bacterial loads, Debridement Devices, Maggots and Biofilm

  • Surfactants and non-toxic antiseptics to decrease bacterial load
  • Debridement devices allow all clinicians to provide excellent mechanical debridement
  • Don’t discount maggots - latest research results
  • Update on biofilm research findings

Diabetic Foot Ulcer Solutions: Circulation Challenges, Off-loading and Complex Healing

  • Circulation criteria before debriding
  • Off-loading devices help you comply with the latest guidelines
  • Research to address the complex healing challenges

Edema-Caused Leg Ulcer Solutions: Address Edema, Compression Options and Slough Interventions

  • Address circulation and edema first
  • Numerous compression products and donning devices (adequate arterial flow)
  • One compression device or pumps (inadequate arterial flow)
  • Speed up healing through new interventions to address the challenges with slough

Complex Pressure Ulcer Solutions: Tools and Algorithms to Take Back to Work

  • Microclimate management tools and techniques to treat
  • Repositioning tools
  • Support surface algorithm
  • Nutrition recommendations from current guidelines

Open Surgical Wound Solutions: Negative Pressure Devices, Instillation Therapy, Isolate a Fistula

  • Use the wide variety of negative pressure devices effectively
  • Why a leased device for high exudate
  • Disposable options for low to moderate exudate Instillation therapy combined with negative pressure
  • Devices to isolate a fistula

Arterial Insufficiency Wound Solutions: Diagnosis, Treatment Modalities, Arteriovenous Pumps

  • New diagnostic options
  • Research results by therapy modality
  • Arterio-venous pumps

Target Audience

  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Wound Care Nurses
  • Physician Assistants
  • Physical Therapists
  • Nursing Home Administrators

Copyright : 04/17/2019

Module 2 | Master the Most Challenging Wounds: The 50 BEST Solutions to Dramatically Improve Wound Healing

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Catalogue products that provide antimicrobial protection for wounds without causing toxicity.
  2. Differentiate pros and cons of five methods of debridement.
  3. Appraise off-loading devices available for diabetic foot ulcers.
  4. Appraise the tools available for easy application of compression stockings.
  5. Anticipate challenges for choosing appropriate solutions for an intact seal when using negative pressure wound therapy.
  6. Examine application techniques for disposable negative pressure wound therapy devices.
  7. Defend the use of modalities for arterial insufficiency wounds based on research results provided.
  8. Evaluate lower extremity pumps safe for use with arterial insufficiency.

Copyright : 04/17/2019

Module 3 | Master the Most Challenging Wounds: The 50 BEST Solutions to Dramatically Improve Wound Healing

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Catalogue products that provide antimicrobial protection for wounds without causing toxicity.
  2. Differentiate pros and cons of five methods of debridement.
  3. Appraise off-loading devices available for diabetic foot ulcers.
  4. Appraise the tools available for easy application of compression stockings.
  5. Anticipate challenges for choosing appropriate solutions for an intact seal when using negative pressure wound therapy.
  6. Examine application techniques for disposable negative pressure wound therapy devices.
  7. Defend the use of modalities for arterial insufficiency wounds based on research results provided.
  8. Evaluate lower extremity pumps safe for use with arterial insufficiency.

Copyright : 04/17/2019

Module 1 | The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Clinical Lab

In healthcare facilities across the country, billions of dollars are being spent annually on the treatment of skin care and wound management.

You are on the front lines of providing care to patients with a variety of skin and wound conditions, and play a critical role in patient outcomes and your facility's reimbursement for services.

There is no better way to learn all of the skills you need to provide state-of-the-art care for your patients than through Hands-On Clinical Labs.

In this highly interactive recording, you'll learn wound care assessment skills by DOING!

Through the use of wound care teaching models, wound care expert, Ann Kahl Taylor, will teach you proper wound assessment techniques. The Hands-On Clinical Lab will add a live, hands-on component to learning that will enhance your retention of skills and techniques covered.

Practice identification, measurement and the applications of various products on life-like wound care models. These models provide a life-like simulation to allow for improved assessment of a wide variety of commonly-seen wound care presentations, including all stages of pressure ulcers, tissue types, undermining, tunneling, fissure and surgical dehiscence.

Take your understanding of wound care to the next level with this hands-on, interactive clinical lab.

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Outline

Wound Assessment Strategies

  • Tissue types/wound bed evaluation Necrotic tissue, granulation, hyper granulation, agranular
  • Phases of wound healing , chronicity
  • Factors impacting wound healing
  • SKILL: Techniques for accurate wound measurements

Top Down Skin Injuries

  • MARSI Medical Adhesive Associated Skin Damage
  • MASD Moisture Associated Skin
  • Damage
    • IAD-incontinence Associated
  • Dermatitis
    • ITT-Intertrigo
    • Skin Tears
  • SKILL: Support periwound protection

Pressure Injuries

  • Demystify staging
  • Prevention: What have you overlooked?
  • Risk assessment
  • Treatment and dressing selection
  • SKILL: Executing the risk assessment

Lower Extremity Wounds

  • Arterial, venous, neuropathic
  • Differentiate etiologies
  • Appropriate therapies
  • SKILL: Practice compression wrapping

Fistula and Ostomie

  • Types of diverion
  • Pouch Selection
  • SKILL: Pouch application

Strategies for Topical Dressing Selection

  • Dressing selection process – samples to compare
  • When is gauze appropriate?
  • Essential toolkit items:
    • Cleansers
    • Debridement options
    • Gels, collagen
    • Absorptive products, foam
    • Antimicrobial, silver
    • Heavy drainage versus minimal
    • Large area wounds
    • Dress difficult locations, tracts and undermining
    • SKILL: Select dressing protocol for various wounds

Target Audience

  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Nurse Educators
  • Physician Assistants
  • Physical Therapists
  • Nursing Home Administrators

Objectives

  1. Distinguish at least 6 tissue types found in chronic wounds.
  2. Identify and differentiate at least 4 wound etiologies.
  3. Compare and contrast 6 terms used to document peri-wound status.
  4. Demonstrate accurate measurement and documentation of wounds, tunneling and undermining, according to the clock method, using a wound teaching model.
  5. Identify and categorize at least 7 dressing types, including the indications for use, precautions and contraindications.
  6. Develop an appropriate dressing/ treatment protocol for a wound, based upon exudate, wound status, and products discussed.

Copyright : 09/10/2019

Module 2 | The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Clinical Lab

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Distinguish at least 6 tissue types found in chronic wounds.
  2. Identify and differentiate at least 4 wound etiologies.
  3. Compare and contrast 6 terms used to document peri-wound status.
  4. Demonstrate accurate measurement and documentation of wounds, tunneling and undermining, according to the clock method, using a wound teaching model.
  5. Identify and categorize at least 7 dressing types, including the indications for use, precautions and contraindications.
  6. Develop an appropriate dressing/ treatment protocol for a wound, based upon exudate, wound status, and products discussed.

Copyright : 09/10/2019

Module 3 | The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Clinical Lab

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Distinguish at least 6 tissue types found in chronic wounds.
  2. Identify and differentiate at least 4 wound etiologies.
  3. Compare and contrast 6 terms used to document peri-wound status.
  4. Demonstrate accurate measurement and documentation of wounds, tunneling and undermining, according to the clock method, using a wound teaching model.
  5. Identify and categorize at least 7 dressing types, including the indications for use, precautions and contraindications.
  6. Develop an appropriate dressing/ treatment protocol for a wound, based upon exudate, wound status, and products discussed.

Copyright : 09/10/2019

Wound Care Documentation: Assessment and Intervention Mistakes to Avoid

Wound care is a specialty for a reason. Correct etiology assignment, diagnostics, treatment, and documentation are essential pieces of knowledge in the successful management of wounds.  While this video training will focus more specifically on documentation, the assessment and intervention are the key factors to accurately reflect in the historical notes made. 

Kim Saunders, MSN/Ed, RN, CWON®, CFCN, will break down her practice tips as far as what you MUST start including in your charting.  As you consider development of an initial plan of care for a newly identified wound or an evolving treatment plan to address a non-healing wound, there are considerations that need to be made clear in your written thought process.

Fascinating and complicated patient scenarios will be presented during this discussion.  You will have the time to critically think through what went right... and what went wrong…in comprehensive wound care both documented and provided.  Learn now how to avoid the mistakes that could lead you down a frightening path, confronting personal or professional litigation.  

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Target Audience

Nurses

Outline

  • Wound Healing
    • The complicated phases of healing
    • Ways to reduce the risk factors that contribute to nonhealing
  • Wound Assessment
    • Skin tones
    • Clues regarding wound etiology
    • Predicting wound healing
    • Wound bed descriptors
  • Principles of Wound Management
    • Wound care goals
    • Developing the comprehensive plan of care
    • Challenges to seamless care across healthcare continuum
  • Nutrition Assessment
    • Align a patient’s nutritional needs with the wound healing goals
    • Address the compromised nutritional status
    • Specific nutritional needs for a pressure injury
  • Special Populations
    • Neonates, geriatrics, bariatrics, spinal cord injuries
  • Pressure Injuries
    • NPUAP definitions & staging
    • Assessment tools, documentation, & treatment of DTPI
    • Mucosal pressure injuries
    • Medical devise-related pressure injuries
    • Pressure injuries in the critically ill patient
    • Skin failure
  • MARSI & Abrasions
    • Types of medical-adhesive related skin injuries
  • Mechanical Injuries: Top-down
    • Top-down vs bottom-up tissue damage
    • Moisture-associated skin damage
    • Skin tear assessment and treatment

Objectives

  1. Examine strategies to prevent medical devise-related pressure injuries.
  2. Predict wound healing based on presentation and interventions.
  3. Create wound care goals.
  4. Appraise challenges to seamlessly care across a healthcare continuum.
  5. Correlate wound healing goals with optimal nutrition.

Copyright : 12/11/2017

Wound Care Pocket Guide

Now in its second edition, the Wound Care Pocket Guide: Clinical Reference is the most up-to-date resource to provide optimal wound care treatment. Color photos and graphs detailed with guide points for assessing and trouble shooting. Waterproof pages, color-coded chapters and a sturdy metal ring provides quick access in any environment.

Topics covered:
  • Wound Base Assessment
  • Measurement & Documentation
  • Drainage Differentiation
  • Infection & Wound Cultures
  • Steps to Assessment
  • Wound Cleansing & Debridement
  • Product Consideration
  • Surgical
  • Traumatic
  • Allergic & Autoimmune
  • Various Etiology
  • Arterial
  • Neuropathic
  • Venous Stasis
  • Moisture Associated
  • Pressure Injury
  • Nutrition & Pressure Injuries