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Digital Seminar

Palliative Wound Care: Realistic Wound Management Goals and Best-Practice Guidelines


Speaker:
Heidi Huddleston Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON®
Duration:
51 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
May 01, 2015
Product Code:
POS076735
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

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Relieving symptoms related to wounds at the end of life is often overwhelming and challenging.  Palliative wound care incorporates goal setting, complex symptom management, and patient and caregiver education. Maintaining the patient’s dignity and the highest quality of life is essential when caring for these patients. This information-packed webcast will enhance your palliative wound care skills, and leave you feeling confident in developing an effective wound care plan to manage these complex wounds.

Heidi H. Cross will share her passion and extensive experience in the field of caring for very fragile patients in the hospice and palliative care settings. She will share techniques to best manage symptoms related to the wound such as pain, odor, exudate containment, and bleeding while preserving the patient’s dignity and quality of life.  Don’t miss this opportunity to become the palliative wound care expert in your facility, and make a difference in the patients in your care.

Credit


* Credit Note - No CE Available

Continuing education credit is not available on this product.



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Heidi Huddleston Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON®'s Profile

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Heidi Huddleston Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON®, is a board-certified Wound and Ostomy Nurse and a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner. She has extensive experience caring for wound and ostomy patients in acute care and long-term care. Currently, Heidi is employed by a surgical group providing consultation for nursing homes and has her own independent practice as an expert witness for plaintiff and defense attorneys. She has contributed in numerous ways to her specialty, including serving as chair of the Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing Certification Board examination committee, co-chair of the Wound and Ostomy Nurses Society National Conference Planning Committee ostomy track, and peer review for the Journal of Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing (JWOCN).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Heidi Cross has an employment relationship with CNY Surgical Physicians. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Heidi Cross is a member of the Wound, Ostomy & Continence Nurses Society, the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, the American Nurses Association, and the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Objectives

  1. Communicate three risk considerations for palliative wounds.
  2. Demonstrate topical and oral pain management.
  3. Investigate avoidable vs. unavoidable wounds, and list steps a facility must take as related to F-Tag 314.
  4. Determine best-practice management techniques for common palliative wounds.

Outline

Palliative Wound Assessment Considerations
  • Holistic Approach to Assessment
  • Risk Assessment
    • Pressure Sore Risk
    • Hospice Pressure Ulcer Risk
    • Skin Failure Risk
  • Pain Assessment
    • Nociceptive vs Neuropathic Pain
    • Wong Baker Pain Scale
    • Non-verbal Pain Indicators
Common Types of Wounds in Palliative Care
  • Pressure Ulcers
  • Malignant Wounds (Fungating Tumors)
  • Arterial Ulcers
  • Kennedy Terminal Ulcers
Avoidable vs. Unavoidable Pressure Ulcers
  • WOCN Position Paper
  • F-Tag 314
  • SCALE
Wound Management Goals & Strategies in Palliative Care
  • Pain Reduction Topically and Orally
  • Moist Wound Healing
  • Odor & Infection Control
  • Dressing & Product Optimization
  • Wound Debridement
  • Bleeding
  • Other Handy Tips
Communication and Documentation Musts

Target Audience

Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants

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