Wound care treatment in today's healthcare environment is more challenging than ever. A wide variety of new treatment options, changing protocols and an ever-growing list of product choices can leave even experienced wound care specialists questioning which treatment path is best to follow.
Increase your confidence, effectiveness, and career opportunities with this Mastery Course in Wound Care. Whether you work in a nursing home, acute care, home health, hospice, or an outpatient wound setting, this comprehensive training will bring your practice up to today’s standards of care. Effectively assess and manage even the toughest wounds. You'll walk away with proper technique and product assessment with first–hand video demonstration!
Increase your confidence, effectiveness, and career opportunities with this Mastery Course in Wound Care. Whether you work in a nursing home, acute care, home health, hospice, or an outpatient wound setting, this comprehensive training will bring your practice up to today’s standards of care. Effectively assess and manage even the toughest wounds. You'll walk away with proper technique and product assessment with first–hand video demonstration!
Advance your wound care practice and improve your patient outcomes by taking your skills to a mastery level – register today!
Mastery Course in Wound Care
Intensive Training with Clinical Lab Demonstration
$499.97 Value
Just $299.99 Today— Unbelievable Savings!
Intensive Training with Clinical Lab Demonstration
$499.97 Value
Just $299.99 Today— Unbelievable Savings!
Plus, earn up to 14.3 CE hours included in the course tuition.
Become a high-valued asset for your facility with these step–by–step video modules
Core Skills
Core Skills required to provide state-of-the-art care to wound care patients. You’ll gain the tools necessary to overcome everyday frustrations and challenges associated with assessing and treating common wounds; this includes learning when and how to use wound care products. In Core Skills, you'll receive clinical tips and strategies derived from evidence-based research and extensive clinical experience.
- Explain core assessment skills of the skin and wound
- Describe wound presentation with appropriate wound product
- Evaluate etiology of wound per location, clinical history, and wound characteristics
- Differentiate systemic vs. local wound infection
- Describe the updated guidelines for skin tears
- Evaluate etiology of wound per location, clinical history, and wound characteristics
Master Skills
Using wound care teaching models, you will learn 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.
After watching these teaching models, you'll be able to:
After watching these teaching models, you'll be able to:
- Distinguish at least 6 tissue types found in chronic wounds
- Identify and differentiate at least 4 wound etiologies
- Compare and contrast 6 terms used to document peri-wound status
- Demonstrate accurate measurement and documentation of wounds, tunneling and undermining, according to the clock method, using a wound teaching model
- Identify and categorize at least 7 dressing types, including the indications for use, precautions and contraindications
- Develop an appropriate dressing/ treatment protocol for a wound, based upon exudate, wound status, and products discussed
First-Hand Demonstration
Using wound models, the hands-on video provides assessment skills by demonstrating proper technique and product assessment. You will see application demonstrations of most product categories — including more challenging applications of negative pressure wound therapy and compression wraps.
This video provides an ongoing method of education for professionals, especially where the clinician must gain knowledge of various wound product options to fit the caregiver and living conditions.
This video provides an ongoing method of education for professionals, especially where the clinician must gain knowledge of various wound product options to fit the caregiver and living conditions.
- Demonstrate and identify an appropriate wound assessment
- Demonstrate accurate measurement of wounds and documentation of tunneling & undermining
- Discuss indications, implementation, precautions for each wound product category
- Establish a method for topical therapy triage using acronym DIWAMOPI to remember therapy triage goals
Mastery Course in Wound Care
Intensive Training with Clinical Lab Demonstration
$499.97 Value
Just $299.99 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Intensive Training with Clinical Lab Demonstration
$499.97 Value
Just $299.99 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
The Next Steps in Advancing Your Practice
Watch your email for your order confirmation, and get instant access to all course materials — all designed to help you effectively master wound care. Click here for course objectives and outline.
Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You'll have unlimited access to all course videos and materials online forever. Plus, use the PESI Mobile app to access the course content on-the-go, wherever and whenever you want on your mobile devices.
Instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through interactive message boards. You'll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners all focused on integrating their new wound care skills in clinical practice, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences and to build your professional network.
Complete your online CE tests and earn up to 14.3 CE hours! Click here for CE credit details and credit details specific to your profession.
Meet the course expert:
Kim Saunders, MSN/ED, RN, CWON®, CFCN, has extensive experiences as a wound, ostomy, and continence nurse across a variety of settings, including acute care, hospice, home health and skilled nursing facilities. As a respected expert in her field, Kim evolved her practice to be able to more fully share her insights as co-owner of WOC Consulting, LLC. In this role, she consults with healthcare systems on a variety of challenges that develop related to wound, ostomy, and incontinence-associated dermatitis. Some of the special projects her knowledge has been sought for include: guiding standardization of wound care formularies and pressure-relieving device selections, as well as a myriad of other processes to standardize and improve upon existing skin and wound care delivery. Her wound care experience goes beyond trouble-shooting the most challenging of patient wounds. It also includes expertise regarding the increasingly important ability to incorporate cost-effective care and reimbursement considerations at the bedside.
Kim is an active member of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society™ and the Advanced Wound Care Society. She has traveled the country extensively to deliver practice-changing wound care trainings to experienced healthcare professionals. Kim is also the author of the Wound Care Pocket Guide: Clinical Reference, Second Edition (PESI, 2017).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kim Saunders has an employment relationship with Pardee Home Health and WOC Consulting. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Kim Saunders has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
Kim is an active member of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society™ and the Advanced Wound Care Society. She has traveled the country extensively to deliver practice-changing wound care trainings to experienced healthcare professionals. Kim is also the author of the Wound Care Pocket Guide: Clinical Reference, Second Edition (PESI, 2017).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kim Saunders has an employment relationship with Pardee Home Health and WOC Consulting. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Kim Saunders has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
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Intensive Training with Clinical Lab Demonstration
$499.97 Value
Just $299.99 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Intensive Training with Clinical Lab Demonstration
$499.97 Value
Just $299.99 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Plus, earn up to 14.3 CE hours included in the course tuition.