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Package - Video & Book
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Product Details
- Format:
- Package - Video & Book Instructions
- Details:
- Multi-disc DVD recording (5 hours, 57 minutes) with electronic manual and instructions and 153 page pocket guide
- Authors:
- HEIDI HUDDLESTON CROSS, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON®
KIM SAUNDERS, MSN/ED, RN, CWON®, CFCN - Publisher:
- PESI HealthCare
- Copyright:
- 6/23/2016
- CE Available:
- Yes, See CE credit tab for complete continuing education details
- Product Code:
- RVKIT076225
Objectives
[-] 072355 - Skin & Wound Care
- Discuss evidence-based practice, identifying evidence-based guidelines.
- Describe skin anatomy and function.
- Identify factors that affect wound healing.
- Describe the essential components of wound assessment.
- Differentiate pressure injuries, venous stasis ulcers, lymphedema, arterial ulcers, and diabetic ulcers.
- Discuss development of biofilms and infection in wounds.
- Explain the different types of wound debridement.
- Describe evidence-based skin and wound care, and dressings and treatments.
Outline
[-] 072355 - Skin & Wound Care
Evidence-based Guidelines
Skin: A Vital Organ
Wounds: When Things Go Wrong
Wound Assessment: A Very Good Place to Start
Biofilms and Wound Infection
Types of Wounds: Know Thine Enemy
Wound Debridement: Preparing the Wound Bed
Wound Dressings and Treatments
What if the Wound is Not Responding?
Nutrition
Loading and Support
“Weird Wounds”
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurses Society
- National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel
Skin: A Vital Organ
- Skin anatomy, structures, and function
- Aging skin
- Photoaging and skin cancer
- Keeping skin healthy and maintenance of pH
Wounds: When Things Go Wrong
- Phases of wound healing
- Acute vs. chronic wounds
- What’s in the patient’s history?
Wound Assessment: A Very Good Place to Start
- Thorough history and physical
- Identify risk factors
- Contributory factors
- Location, location, location
- Dimensions
- Undermining/tunneling
- Wound bed
- Wound margins
- Exudate
- Peri-wound tissue
Biofilms and Wound Infection
- Is that wound infected?
- The emerging recognition of biofilms
- Osteomyelitis
- MRSA
- CDC “Postantibiotic era”
Types of Wounds: Know Thine Enemy
- Pressure injuries
- Avoidable vs. unavoidable pressure injuries
- Venous stasis ulcers
- Lymphedema
- Lower extremity arterial disease
- Lower extremity neuropathic disease
Wound Debridement: Preparing the Wound Bed
- Autolytic
- Enzymatic
- Mechanical
- Conservative sharp
- Surgical
- Yikes! Maggots
Wound Dressings and Treatments
- Necessity of moist wound healing
- Hydrocolloids
- Wound or HydroGels
- Hydrofibers
- Calcium Alginates
- Foams
- Negative pressure wound therapy
What if the Wound is Not Responding?
- Antimicrobial dressings
- Collagen dressings
- Cellular and Tissue-Based Products
- Other modalities
Nutrition
- Assessment
- Diet, vitamins and minerals
- Albumin and prealbumin
Loading and Support
- Support surfaces
“Weird Wounds”
- Fistulas
- Calciphylaxis
- Herpes Simplex
- Radiation dermatitis
Author
HEIDI HUDDLESTON CROSS, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON®
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.
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.
KIM SAUNDERS, MSN/ED, RN, CWON®, CFCN
Kim Saunders 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 is the owner of WOC Consulting. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kim Saunders is a member of the Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurse Society.
Continuing Education Credits Awarded for Completion of Entire Package
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Combined Continuing Education Credit From All Components
Breakdown of Continuing Education Credits by Components
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072355 - Skin & Wound Care
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084775 - Wound Care Pocket Guide
Audience
Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Nurse Educators, Certified Diabetes Educators, Physician Assistants, Physical Therapists, Physical Therapy Assistants, Nursing Home Administrators, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Athletic Trainers
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Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI Rehab, P.O. Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call (800) 844-8260.
ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at (800) 844-8260.