Joan Junkin – Skin & Wound Care

We can learn to improve our skills and prevent and heal wounds better as our budgets shrink. We will be sharing the tools that can help you navigate this minefield.

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Joan Junkin – Skin & Wound Care

Description:

All the necessities necessary to be a state-Of-The-Art care for your patients includes:

• Types of Wounds
• Infection Control
• Healing Methods
• Non-Healing Wounds
• Acute & Chronic Wounds
• Best Use Wound Products

We can improve our methods to heal and prevent wounds as budgets shrink. We will be discussing the tools necessary to navigate this minefield. Busy clinicians often don’t have time to view the latest guidelines and science, so this information will be presented in a way that makes it easy to incorporate into your practice. Joan Junkin She is passionate about skin and wound healing but also realizes that caregivers are just as dependent on endorphins. You can expect humor and the best treatments, devices, and modalities to brighten your day.

We’ll focus on methods proven to prevent or speed healing for the especially challenging diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, those related to lower extremity edema and vascular ulcers. Joan It offers a fresh perspective that can help patients with their ever-difficult patient education and motivation. Infection control will be emphasized. This seminar will be your one-stop shop for infection control methods.-Shop for all the essentials you need to increase your wound prevention and treatment skills.

Change your practice if you want better wound healing. As we explore the evidence available, join us!

OUTLINE

Skin balance is key: ‘ounce of prevention’

• Review of epidermal and dermal differences in moisture, oil, bacteria and acid balance
• Skin The first line defense. How our skin protects us. And how you can help it succeed.

Prevention of traumatic skin injuries

• Skin Tears, abrasions and tape burns
• Simple methods to reduce friction between skin, and other surfaces

Incontinence and dermatitis

• Evidence for prevention and treatment-Follow international guidelines
• High intensity prevention is required for frequent incontinence.
  • Protective and acidic skin cleanser
  • Incontinence cloths reduce friction and have acidic cleansers.-in protectants
  • Protective and underpads

Accurately assess the buttocks – Pressure ulcers vs. other common buttock disorders

• Location, shape, color, depth
• Systematic assessment of case studies

Fecal incontinence

• Steps to increase stool consistency
• There are pros and cons to collection devices

Fungal rashes

• There are many options for how and when to treat fungus
• Natural ways to stop and control recurrent infections-Infection

Wound healing essentials

• A full healing process is divided into phases-Thinness ulcer
• Wound assessment techniques
• The team approach to wound treatment includes patients and their families
• To speed up healing, nutrition and endorphins are used.

Wound To ensure the best possible healing, make sure you prepare your bed

• Best cleansing requires more than saline
• Use aggressive antiseptic cleaners
• Biofilm – an invisible shield against bacteria
• Use gentle, effective antiseptic skin cleansers

Non-debt-Vital part of infection control is viable tissues

• Compare methods – every method has its pros and cons
• Discuss new soft pad (breaks biofilm too).

Dressings aid in balancing the moisture and bacteria levels of wounds

• There are many antiseptic dressings on the market. A new category is germ traps.
• Super-Absorbent options are not limited to foam and alginate.
• How to choose the right dressing for your wound based on its characteristics
• How to lower costs with products included in your buying contract

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Modalities-Physical science can be used in order to speed up healing

Operative wounds

• To reduce dehiscence, keep incisions clean.
• Negative pressure wound treatment bedside and single patient models

International guidelines for pressure ulcers (2014)

• How to identify and respond to risks
• Useful tools and prevention options
• Specialists in pressure mapping and cushion fitting
• Foam mattresses, air mattresses, chair cushions, foot protection boots – what options may be best for your facility’s situation/budget

Diabetic foot ulcers

• Depression, vitamin-D deficiency, and neuropathy: How limbs and lives are destroyed
• Discount-Loading methods
• Utilizing written contracts

Advanced therapies – hyperbarics and skin grafts

Arterial ulcers

• Comparison of diagnostic methods
• Re-Vascularize, if you can
• If you are unable to restore flow, keep it dry

Ulcers causing edema

• Tips to help them succeed with compression and elevation
• Methods to control infections and prevent stasis dermatitis.
• Management of fibrin slough without causing injury to the legs

Lymphedema, lipedema

• Assessment tips
• Lymphedema therapy

Take home toolkit: Useful resources and how to apply what you’ve learned today at your workplace tomorrow!

OBJECTIVES

1. Discuss and demonstrate strategies to minimize skin damage at high risk.
2. Choose between the best skin care products and the most effective use of the options.
3. You must identify and distinguish the factors that could impede wound healing.
4. Analyze the characteristics of leg and foot injuries: arterial, venous, and neuropathic.
5. Identify 6 types of wound dressings.
6. Compare and contrast 5 types debridement.
7. Outline your goals for wound care within hospice and palliative care settings.
8. Explain evidence-Pressure ulcer prevention tools and practices.