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Kim Saunders – Mastery Course in Wound Care Intensive Training with Clinical Lab Demonstrationc
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!
Advance your wound care practice and improve your patient outcomes by taking your skills to a mastery level – register today!
Session 1
- 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
Session 2
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:
- 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
Session 3
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.
- 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
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.
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