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- Faculty:
- Heidi Huddleston Cross
- Duration:
- 5 Hours 59 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Jun 23, 2016
Description
Outline
- Overview of Evidence-based Skin & Wound Care Practices
- Guidelines
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurses Society
- National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel
- Skin: A Vital Organ
- Skin functions and anatomy
- Geriatric skin
- K eeping skin healthy
- Wound Assessment: When Things Go Wrong
- Phases of wound healing
- Acute vs. chronic wounds
- Prevention of skin issues, particularly pressure ulcers
- Wound Assessment: A Very Good Place to Start
- Thorough history and physical
- Identify risk factors
- Contributory risk factors: intrinsic and extrinsic
- Location, location, location
- Dimensions
- Undermining/tunneling
- Wound bed
- Wound margins
- Exudate
- Peri-wound tissue
- Is that wound infected?
- MRSA
- Osteomyelitis
- Wound Dressings and Treatment
- Moist wound healing
- Dressing types
- Silver and other antimicrobial dressings
- Negative pressure therapy
- Nutrition
- Loading and support
- Wound Bed Preparation and Debridement
- Autolytic
- Enzymatic
- Mechanical
- Conservative sharp
- Surgical
- Yikes! Maggots . . .
- Types of Wounds: Know Thine Enemy
- Pressure ulcers and staging
- Incontinence associated dermatitis
- Venous stasis ulcers
- Lymphedema
- Lower extremity arterial disease
- Lower extremity neuropathic disease
- Skin tears/adhesive injuries
- Palliative Care and Regulatory Issues
- Palliative care: when enough is enough
- Acute care: Present on Admission (POA) codes
- Long Term Care: MDS 3.0
- Home care: OASIS-C
Faculty
Heidi Huddleston Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWOCN Related seminars and products: 6
Heidi H. Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON, is a board-certified Wound and Ostomy Nurse and a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner in Syracuse, NY. She has extensive experience caring for wound and ostomy patients in acute care, as well as in long term care facilities. Currently, she is employed by CNY Surgical Physicians consulting for nursing homes in the Syracuse area, and has her own independent practice as an expert witness for plaintiff and defense attorneys.
Ms. Cross is a member of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society, the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, and the American Nurses Association. She has served on numerous committees related to wound and ostomy care, including as chair of the Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing Certification Board examination committee, the credential and review committee, and the marketing committee. For the Wound and Ostomy Nurses Society, she is the co-chair of the National Conference Planning Committee ostomy track, has done peer review for the Journal of Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing (JWOCN), and was the recipient of a grant from the Center for Clinical Investigation Research. She participated in developing the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers in 2014.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Heidi Huddleston Cross receives an honorarium and consulting fee from Molnlycke. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Heidi Huddleston Cross is a member of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses (WOCN) Society.
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