Ann Kahl Taylor – Skin & Wound Care

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 Ann Kahl Taylor – Skin & Wound Care

• Yikes! Maggots!
• Leg & foot ulcers: Get them healing now
• Wound measurements & cultures: Are you doing them right?
• The most recent wound dressings and products
• These are proven wound prevention tips
• Strategies to control infection
• Tips to help patients adhere

Wound care expert, Ann Kahl TaylorMS, RN and CWOCN has been there. It was difficult for her to keep up with the many changes in wound care products, protocols, and treatment options while managing a hectic schedule and a heavy patient load. After a lot of frustration, she decided to change her ways and started teaching nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapy therapists, and physician assistants. And in one short day, she can teach you assessment and treatment techniques you didn’t know, and bring your skin and wound management skills to a new level!

Learn about the most recent strategies for skin and wound care.

• Cleansing, debridement, and dressing
• How to control infection and the solutions
• The best ways to document skin and wound care
• Get the most recent products for cleansing, moisturizing or sealing your skin.
• Dressing options and selection criteria

Ann’s evidence-She is able to share this information in a way that encourages learning and practical application. Register now to take advantage of this unique learning opportunity

OUTLINE

Wound And Skin Care Challenges

• Traumatic Lesions
  • Skin Tears
  • Surgical
• Pressure Ulcers
  • Controversies & Trends in Staging
  • Deep Tissue Injury
  • Details about Heel Ulcers
  • Pressure Management
• Infection
  • Candida
  • Colonization
  • How to get it Wound Cultures that are Right
  • Way
  • Dehisced Surgical Wounds
  • Infections of the soft tissue, necrotizing
  • Grafting
  • Cellulitis
  • Chronic Sub-Clinical Infections
  • Osteomyelitis
• Circulatory Disorders
  • Vascular Lesions
  • Arterial Insufficiency
  • Venous stasis is a disease
• Special Population Considerations
  • Diabetic
  • Bariatric
  • Neonatal
  • Advanced Age

Success is possible Wound Healing

• Overcoming Common Impediments
  • Nutritional Challenges
    • Unintentional Weight Loss
    • Malnutrition
    • Protein-Energy Malnutrition (PEM).
  • Tissue Perfusion & Oxygenation
  • Necrosis
• Wound Assessment
  • Lage
  • Age
  • Measurement
  • Base
  • Odor
  • Drainage
  • Wound Edge
  • Pain
• Wound Staging
  • In-Description of depth
    • Stage 1, 2, 3 and 4
    • Suspected Deep Tissue Injury
    • Unstageable Wounds
  • Case Studies
• Topical therapy
  • Dressing Selection & Use
  • Antimicrobials
  • Pain Management
  • Considerations regarding Cost/Reimbursement
• Debridement
  • The Treatment Options
  • Pulsed Lavage
  • Maggot Therapy
• Moist Wound Healing
  • Exudate Management
  • The Latest in Dressing Options
  • Avoiding Maceration
• Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
  • Vacuum therapy: Active Therapy-Assist
  • Wound Closure
    • Useful Tips
    • Problems and complications
• Adjunctive Wound Therapies
  • Ultrasound
  • Estim
• Discharge Planning/Plan of Care

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Strategies for Continence Care

• Skin Cleansing Techniques
• Moisture Management
• Treatment Strategies
  • Pharmacological
  • Fecal Containment devices and beyond
  • Traditional Rectal Tubes
  • Surgical
  • Barrier Ointments & Creams

Tips, Tricks & Techniques for Ostomy & Fistula Care

• Choosing the Right Appliance & Accessories
• Pouch Application Techniques
• Products for Gaps/Defects
• Crusting: Periology-Stomal Skin Injuries

Beyond Treatment: Safeguarding Your License & Practice

• Reimbursement
• Documentation & Coding Strategies
• National Treatment Guidelines

OBJECTIVES

• Describe the complete plan of care that will promote wound healing.
• Identify the signs and symptoms of vascular, neuroopathic, or pressure ulcers.
• You can now offer several new ways to help wound healing.
• You can distinguish between colostomy, ileostomy, and urostomy.
• You can find effective strategies and techniques to help with both simple and complex ostomies.
• Identify the most appropriate treatments for urinary and fecal problems.
• Use tools to aid in the assessment and management patients with wounds, ostomies or incontinence.