COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on the identification/assessment and management of wounds with mixed etiology. Content includes the differentiation of pathophysiology, risk factors, lower extremity clinical findings, and diagnostic testing of common lower extremity etiologies.  Evidence-based practice guidelines provide the basis for management approaches to include skin and wound...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on the management of difficult to heal wounds including identification, risk factors and management approaches involving adjunctive treatment modalities. The indications, mechanisms of action, benefits, and contraindications for adjunctive pharmaceutical products, advanced wound dressings and medical devices will be discussed. INTENDED AUDIENCE:    INTENDED...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this presentation is to increase the knowledge of the direct patient care provider (RNs, LPNs, Medics) regarding legal, ethical and reimbursement issues in skin and wound management. INTENDED AUDIENCE:    INTENDED AUDIENCE:  The non-specialist nurse caregiver (LPN/LVNs, RNs, Advanced Practice) and non-nursing professionals (e.g....

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on the identification/assessment and management of first degree and superficial second-degree burns. Pathophysiology, classification, topical management, and referral criteria will be discussed. INTENDED AUDIENCE:    INTENDED AUDIENCE:  The non-specialist nurse caregiver (LPN/LVNs, RNs, Advanced Practice) and non-nursing professionals (e.g. PTs, OTs, PAs, Medics) practicing...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on a culture of safety in skin and wound care for individual patients, caregivers, the health care system and others involved in wound care. Content includes the prevention and treatment of skin and wound care issues.  Evidence-based practice guides focused assessments and management approaches....

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on anatomy and physiology of the skin along with impact of age and comorbidities and their impact on routine skin care with skin health and integrity. INTENDED AUDIENCE:    INTENDED AUDIENCE:  The non-specialist nurse caregiver (LPN/LVNs, RNs, Advanced Practice) and non-nursing professionals (e.g. PTs,...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on the types and phases of acute and chronic wound healing which facilitates understanding the anticipated trajectory and when the wound is stalled. INTENDED AUDIENCE:    INTENDED AUDIENCE:  The non-specialist nurse caregiver (LPN/LVNs, RNs, Advanced Practice) and non-nursing professionals (e.g. PTs, OTs, PAs, Medics)...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on the types and phases of acute and chronic wound healing which facilitates understanding the anticipated trajectory and when the wound is stalled. INTENDED AUDIENCE:    INTENDED AUDIENCE:  The non-specialist nurse caregiver (LPN/LVNs, RNs, Advanced Practice) and non-nursing professionals (e.g. PTs, OTs, PAs, Medics)...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on accurate and validated wound assessment parameters including classification systems which provides identification of wound progression or deterioration.  Validated wound assessment tools and wound classifications are discussed in detail. INTENDED AUDIENCE:    INTENDED AUDIENCE:  The non-specialist nurse caregiver (LPN/LVNs, RNs, Advanced Practice) and non-nursing...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Emphasis in this offering is an extensive review of types of skin injuries, their prevention and treatment. Skin injuries studied in this course include skin tears, moisture associated skin damage, mechanical skin injuries, surgical site wound infections, pressure injuries and wounds of the lower extremity.  INTENDED AUDIENCE: ...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Skin tears are prevalent and found in all healthcare settings. Skin tears are often preventable, they are not routinely classified using a validated tool, and topical management is not evidence based.  This course focuses on the prevention, identification, classification and management of skin tears.   INTENDED AUDIENCE:...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Skin tears are prevalent and found in all healthcare settings. Skin tears are often mis-managed based on practice myths. Skin tears are not routinely classified using a validated tool, and topical management is not evidence based. This presentation will focus on dispelling common myths and providing the...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This rapid wound review course is intended to assess the participant’s gaps in knowledge in evidence-based comprehensive wound care as well as to prepare the participant to sit for the WOCNCB Wound Certification Exam. This interactive course reviews wound etiologies, assessments and management of pressure ulcers, venous,...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This presentation focuses on understanding the practice implications of deep tissue pressure injury (DTPI) and identifying skin/wound lesions that mimic DTPI is essential for healthcare care professionals caring for individuals with acute and chronic wounds. Understanding these concepts will assist with accurate wound etiology identification and in...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Compression therapy, pertaining to patients with venous and/or lymphedema, is not readily understood by nurses.  This course provides nurses, from entry level to advance practitioners, information regarding the use of compression therapy in the management of patients with venous and/or lymphedema disease. INTENDED AUDIENCE:  Nurses of all...