Full Course Description
Skin & Wound Care: 15 Assessment and Treatment Techniques You Didn't Know
OUTLINE
Wound and Skin Care Challenges
- Traumatic Lesions
- Pressure Ulcers
- Controversies & Trends in Staging
- Deep Tissue Injury
- The Specifics on Heel Ulcers
- Pressure Management
- Infection
- Candida
- Colonization
- Obtaining Wound Cultures the Right
- Way
- Dehisced Surgical Wounds
- Necrotizing Soft tissue Infections
- Grafting
- Cellulitis
- Chronic Sub-Clinical Infections
- Osteomyelitis
- Circulatory Disorders
- Vascular Lesions
- Arterial Insufficiency
- Venous Stasis disease
- Special Population Considerations
- Diabetic
- Bariatric
- Neonatal
- Advanced Age
Achieving Successful Wound Healing
- Overcoming Common Impediments
- Nutritional Challenges
- Unintentional Weight Loss
- Malnutrition
- Protein-Energy Malnutrition (PEM)
- Tissue Perfusion & Oxygenation
- Necrosis
- Wound Assessment
- Location
- Age
- Measurement
- Base
- Odor
- Drainage
- Wound Edge
- Pain
- Wound Staging
- In-depth Description of
- Stage 1, 2, 3, 4
- Suspected Deep Tissue Injury (SDTI)
- Unstageable Wounds
- Case Studies
- Topical therapy
- Dressing Selection & Use
- Antimicrobials
- Pain Management
- Cost/Reimbursement Considerations
- Debridement
- Treatment Choices
- Pulsed Lavage
- Maggot Therapy
- Moist Wound Healing
- Exudate Management
- The Latest in Dressing Options
- Avoiding Maceration
- Negative Pressure Wound therapy
- Active Therapy: Vacuum-Assisted
- Wound Closure
- Usage Tips
- Issues and Complications
- Adjunctive Wound Therapies
- Discharge Planning/Plan of Care
Strategies for Continence Care
- Skin Cleansing Techniques
- Moisture Management
- Treatment Strategies
- Pharmacological
- Fecal Containment Devices: Beyond
- Traditional Rectal Tubes
- Surgical
- Barrier Ointments & Creams
Tips, Tricks & Techniques for Ostomy & Fistula Care
- Choosing the Right Appliance & Accessories
- Pouch Application Techniques
- Products for Gaps/Defects
- Crusting: Treatment of Peri-Stomal Skin Damage
Beyond Treatment: Safeguarding Your License & Practice
- Reimbursement
- Documentation & Coding Strategies
- National Treatment Guidelines
OBJECTIVES
- Explain the comprehensive plan of care to promote optimal wound healing.
- Identify characteristics of vascular, neuropathic and pressure ulcers, including deep tissue injury.
- State several new interventions useful to support successful wound healing.
- Differentiate between urostomy, ileostomy and colostomy.
- List effective strategies and techniques for simple and complicated ostomies.
- Identify appropriate interventions for urinary and fecal incontinence.
- Implement tools to assist with assessment and management of patients with wounds, ostomies and incontinence.
Program Information
Objectives
- Explain the comprehensive plan of care to promote optimal wound healing.
- Identify characteristics of vascular, neuropathic and pressure ulcers, including deep tissue injury.
- State several new interventions useful to support successful wound healing.
- Differentiate between urostomy, ileostomy and colostomy.
- List effective strategies and techniques for simple and complicated ostomies.
- Identify appropriate interventions for urinary and fecal incontinence.
- Implement tools to assist with assessment and management of patients with wounds, ostomies and incontinence.
Outline
Wound and Skin Care Challenges
- Traumatic Lesions
- Pressure Ulcers
- Controversies & Trends in Staging
- Deep Tissue Injury
- The Specifics on Heel Ulcers
- Pressure Management
- Infection
- Candida
- Colonization
- Obtaining Wound Cultures the Right
- Way
- Dehisced Surgical Wounds
- Necrotizing Soft tissue Infections
- Grafting
- Cellulitis
- Chronic Sub-Clinical Infections
- Osteomyelitis
- Circulatory Disorders
- Vascular Lesions
- Arterial Insufficiency
- Venous Stasis disease
- Special Population Considerations
- Diabetic
- Bariatric
- Neonatal
- Advanced Age
Achieving Successful Wound Healing
- Overcoming Common Impediments
- Nutritional Challenges
- Unintentional Weight Loss
- Malnutrition
- Protein-Energy Malnutrition (PEM)
- Tissue Perfusion & Oxygenation
- Necrosis
- Wound Assessment
- Location
- Age
- Measurement
- Base
- Odor
- Drainage
- Wound Edge
- Pain
- Wound Staging
- In-depth Description of
- Stage 1, 2, 3, 4
- Suspected Deep Tissue Injury (SDTI)
- Unstageable Wounds
- Case Studies
- Topical therapy
- Dressing Selection & Use
- Antimicrobials
- Pain Management
- Cost/Reimbursement Considerations
- Debridement
- Treatment Choices
- Pulsed Lavage
- Maggot Therapy
- Moist Wound Healing
- Exudate Management
- The Latest in Dressing Options
- Avoiding Maceration
- Negative Pressure Wound therapy
- Active Therapy: Vacuum-Assisted
- Wound Closure
- Usage Tips
- Issues and Complications
- Adjunctive Wound Therapies
- Discharge Planning/Plan of Care
Strategies for Continence Care
- Skin Cleansing Techniques
- Moisture Management
- Treatment Strategies
- Pharmacological
- Fecal Containment Devices: Beyond
- Traditional Rectal Tubes
- Surgical
- Barrier Ointments & Creams
Tips, Tricks & Techniques for Ostomy & Fistula Care
- Choosing the Right Appliance & Accessories
- Pouch Application Techniques
- Products for Gaps/Defects
- Crusting: Treatment of Peri-Stomal Skin Damage
Beyond Treatment: Safeguarding Your License & Practice
- Reimbursement
- Documentation & Coding Strategies
- National Treatment Guidelines
Copyright :
09/29/2015
Legal and Regulatory Issues in Wound Care: Avoid Wound Issues and Keep Yourself Out of Court
Program Information
Outline
Introduction
- Basics of the U.S. legal system
- Why do people sue?
- Chronic wounds (especially pressure ulcers) – why are they such a hot topic?
- Negligence
- Definition of adverse events
- Standards of Care – where do we find them?
- The economic, professional, and personal impacts of litigation
Regulatory Issues and How They Affect Your Wound Care Practice
- Federal statutes and regulations
- Hospital Acquired Conditions and Never Events – can we really always avoid them?
- Those dreaded Department of Health and Joint Commission surveys
- Code of Federal Regulations – Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities
- State Practice Acts and practicing within your scope
Assessment Essentials
- Risk assessment
- Patient assessment
- Wound assessment
- Nutrition assessment
- Mobility assessment
Legally Defensible Documentation
- What MUST be in the record to effectively defend yourself and your institution
- The 5 Cs of effective documentation
- Pitfalls to avoid
- Electronic Health Records: a boon or a bust when it comes to wound documentation?
Communication Essentials
- With the patient
- With the family
- With the physician
- Multidisciplinary involvement and communication
Sticky Situations in Wound Care: Helpful Hints to Minimize Your Legal Risk
- Pain management - Avoiding a “Pain and suffering” allegation
- Nutritional allegations - Delay or failure to provide appropriate nutritional interventions
- Policies and procedures – can make or break your defense
- Staffing levels and competency
- Wound photography – pro’s and con’s and guidelines
- Malpractice insurance – is it necessary for nurses?
Issues with Select Types of Wounds
- Pressure ulcers – avoidable versus unavoidable
- Arterial ulcers
- Diabetic ulcers
- Know the etiology: dangers in failing to correctly diagnose and treat
You Make The Call
- Case studies and scenarios
Objectives
- Explain the U.S. legal system and the current wound litigation environment.
- Describe regulatory and legal principles of wound care.
- Examine the essentials of wound assessments and legally-defensible documentation.
- Analyze necessary communications to avoid wound issues and keep yourself out of court.
- Describe how to establish a wound program that is legally defensible.
- Evaluate high-risk wound care situations that are prone to litigation.
Copyright :
10/18/2016