Course Content
Course Content
This action packed one-day course includes a broad assortment of wound care management concepts and skills needed by wound care nurses and nurse practitioners who manage chronic and acute wounds.
Course Includes 4 Specific Segments:
Wound Assessment
The assessment process
Practicing the skill
Monitoring the wound
Treatment Options
The key concept of moist wound healing
Systemic issues that affect various types of wounds in the healing process
Topical wound treatment choices
Seven principles of topical therapy
Keys to matching the wound needs to topical product selection
Evaluation of the wound response and treatment plan revision
Pressure Ulcers
Evaluation and Management
Persons at risk
Measures to implement to prevent pressure ulcer development
The patient in bed
The patient in the chair
Evaluation and revision of the treatment plan
Lower Extremity Ulcers
Recognition and Treatment
Arterial Ulcers
Venous Ulcers
Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Monitoring the Ulcers
Night Elective
Participants may add the elective night course of the Hands-On Wound Skills. See full course listing for additional online continuing education content provided with this course. To see more about this awesome course elective, click HERE.
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