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Wound Care: Taking Action for Successful Wound Healing
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Learn how to take action in wound care to promote successful wound healing. If chosen carefully, dressings and other wound care products can help us reach priority wound healing goals! In this recording you will learn:
- Moisture balance (moist wound bed and dry skin around it)
- Bacterial balance (keeping the count down to a tolerable level)
- Decreased cross-contamination
- Avoiding budget breakers- such as daily dressing changes and too frequent changing of high cost dressings
OUTLINE
Optimal environment for a healable wound
- How to keeping bacterial counts down in the wound
- Infection control, wound cleansers, dressings, debridement
Moisture balance plus budget balance for wound care -achieved mostly by judicious use of dressings
- Smart dressings (these donate moisture to dry wounds; absorb any excess exudate)
- Germ control dressings help us with bacterial balance
Putting it all together- developing your wound care product formulary
- Wound characteristics that count the most for the care plan
- Match wound characteristics to the dressing that fits the needs of each wound
Modalities
- Electrical stimulation stimulates healing at all phases
- Ultrasound therapy includes non-contact option that takes pain out of the therapeutic equation
Grafts
- Autografts now include an outpatient option in addition to surgical choices
- Allografts include those with living cells or acellular human tissue
- Xenografts use collagen matrix from our animal friends to assist the healing process
OBJECTIVES
- Name 2 of the newer bacterial ‘trap’ type dressings that immobilize bacteria
- Modify a wound care plan as exudate levels change or signs of stalling out occur
- List 2 appropriate indications for using gauze dressings for more than 24 hours after surgery
- Choose a dressing most appropriate for a highly exudating wound
- Select a dressing most appropriate for a dry to minimally exudating wound
- Recognize that ‘smart’ dressings donate moisture to a dry wound and absorb exudate from an exuding wound
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Joan Junkin, RN, MSN
Joan Junkin, RN, MSN, was introduced to wound care as a research analyst for the AHCPR (now AHRQ) panel that created the first ever pressure ulcer treatment guideline. After wound education and certification, she was the wound clinical nurse specialist for a 500-bed hospital and spent 10 years building an outpatient and inpatient program to improve wound outcomes. She conducted and published the first research documenting incontinence associated dermatitis prevalence in acute care and has published in several nursing and wound journals. Since 2008 she has devoted her time to teaching in 49 states and 5 provinces in Canada. This, along with her wound consulting business gives her a broad perspective. Joan is passionate about sharing essential information for healthcare providers with just enough humor to help navigate this challenging topic.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Joan Junkin is an independent contractor and has an employment relationship with UNMC College of Nursing. She receives a speaking honorarium from Sage, a Stryker company. Joan Junkin receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Joan Junkin is a member of the Association for Advancement of Wound Care.
