Wound Care Certification Prep Course

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• Prepare yourself for a variety of wound care cert exams including CWCN, CWS & WCC
• Enhance your skills in:
  • Assessment
  • Wound Bed Management
  • Differentiating
  • Comprehensive Treatment Etiology
• Practice exams, pocket photo guide & more included to help you succeed!

This program will give you the edge you need to prepare for and pass a variety of wound certification exams including the CWCN, CWS and WCC programs. Enjoy a unique presentation package that includes pictures and case scenarios that will make this information ‘stick’ in your memory. You will also receive our unique pocket guide that serves as a great visual learning tool as well as an ongoing reference source. Access to our nursing success network website will finalize your preparation with practice tests and additional learning resources.

You will learn about the latest in wound assessment principles along with strategies for proper assessment in various clinical settings. Understand how to differentiate etiology, complications and symptoms of wound stagnation by clinical presentation. Gain the ability to critically analyze multiple treatment options for each type of wound presentation. Take advantage of all this program has to offer and prepare yourself for your wound care certification exam by signing up for this proven program today!

OUTLINE

DAY ONE

Principles of Assessment

Wound Characteristics

• Size, tracts, & location
• Wound base & margins
• Surrounding skin
• Drainage, odor, pain

Wound Healing Process

• Full & partial thickness
• Wound phases
• Wound stagnation

Address Wound Bed Goals Systematically

Infection

• Symptoms
• Cultures
• Mesh, hardware, bone
• Prevention
• Treatment

Differential Assessment to Identify Etiologic Factors

Systemic

• Nutrition: its impact on wound healing
• Immunosuppression
• Glucose Control
• Perfusion

Non-viable tissue

• When to debride
• Contraindications to debridement
• Types of debridement

Chronic symptoms – Causes & Treatment Options

• Epibole
• Biofilm

Management Considerations

• Skin Considerations
• Drainage Management (Product Determinations per Specific Wound Presentations)
• Wound Bed Management Considerations
• When to Refer

DAY TWO

Best Practice/Standard of Practice per Etiology

ASSESSMENT, TREATMENT AND WHEN TO REFER

Surgical

Primary, secondary, tertiary intention

Uncomplicated

Complicated

Traumatic

• Skin tears & burns
• Friction & shearing

Pressure Ulcer

• Risk Assessment
• Staging
• Standard of practice
• Management options
• Complications to consider

Moisture Associated

• Peri-wound
• Peri-stomal
• Incontinence-associated
• Intertriginous dermatitis

Venous Stasis

• Risk Assessment
• Differential symptoms, work-up & management options
• Complications to consider

Arterial

• Risk Assessment
• Differential symptoms, work-up & management options
• Complications to consider

Neuropathic

• Risk Assessment
• Differential symptoms, work-up & management options
• Complications to consider

Neoplastic

• Clinical presentation
• Wound bed goals & treatment options

Autoimmune

• Bullous pemphigoid
• Vasculitic ulcers
• Pyoderma gangrenosum

Microbial

• Necrotizing fasciitis & MRSA
• Viral & Fungal

Calciphylaxis

• Predisposing factors
• Clinical presentation & treatment options

Allergic

• Predisposing factors
• Clinical presentations & treatment options

Burns

• Degree of damage
• Treatment options

OBJECTIVES

• Define the principles of assessment.
• Differentiate the etiology of varying wound presentations.
• Identify early signs of wound complications.
• Recognize the etiology of wound stagnation.
• Critically analyze multiple treatment options for each type of wound presentation (deep-wet, deep-dry, shallow-wet, and shallow-dry).
• Distinguish systemic factors that require advanced therapies.
• Compare and contrast when to treat and when to refer a patient.
• Identify atypical wound presentation.
• Describe local wound treatment options of neoplastic wounds.
• Identify early complications of surgical wounds.
• Explain treatment options for fistulas.
• Design treatment options for copious draining wounds.
• Specify standard of practice prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers.
• Differentiate between moisture-associated skin damage and pressure ulcers.
• Identify standard of practice venous and arterial work-up and treatment options.
• Compile neuropathic presentation and treatment options.