Kim Saunders – The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Clinical Lab

(This course is available for immediate delivery) You are on the front lines of providing care to patients with a variety of skin and wound conditions, and play a critical role in patient outcomes and your facility’s bottom line.

Kim Saunders – The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Clinical Lab

Wound Bed Tissue Types: Presentation & Treatment

• Tissue from the Epithelium
• Granulation Tissue
  • Healthy Granulation
  • Hypergranulation
• Necrotic – How and when to debride
  • Slough – Moist, devitalized tissue
  • Eschar – Dry, devitalized tissue

Wound Margin Strategies and Issues

• Epiboly – Rolled edges
• Hyperkeratotic – Dry, calloused edges
• Undermined – Trauma, drying of wound bed
• Peri-Signs of infection in the wound
  • Erythema, or redness and heat
  • Induration (hardened tissues)
  • Fluctuance is mushy tissue

Common Wound Characteristics

• The phases of healing: What is the difference between chronic and normal?
• Location, Etiology, and Characteristics
  • Arterial insufficiency
  • Insufficiency of the venous system
  • Diabetic/Neuropathic
  • Pressure ulcers: How to Decode the Stages
• Participate in the latest wound care model technology by learning skills-Exercises based on:
  • Wound Staging
  • Identification of tissue type
  • Properly measuring techniques
  • Tunneling/Undermining
  • Wound Care product knowledge and application

How to Choose Dressings

• Draining Wounds that are dry or minimally draining
  • Hydrogel
  • Oil emulsion dressing
  • Moistened gelling fiber
  • Hydrocolloid
• Moderate draining wounds
  • Alginate or gelling fiber
  • Hydrogel based on glycerin
  • Traditional foam
• Heavy/copious drainage
  • Negative pressure wound therapy
  • Moisturising dressings
  • Super absorbent dressings

Strategies to Reduce Bioburden

• Best cleansing
  • Surfactants
  • Antiseptic Cleansers: A fresh look
  • Breaking the biofilm
• Antiseptic dressings
  • Silver
  • Iodine complex
  • Hyperosmolar (sugar salt honey)
  • Methylene blue, gentian violet
  • Dressings that trap Exudate trap Germs also
  • Dressings that attract bacteria ionically

Tissue-Based Products

• Autograft
• Allograft
  • Cryopreserved
  • In vivo
  • Acellular
• Xenograft
  • Bovine
  • Porcine
  • Equine
  • Marine

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Description:

• Staging wounds & identifying tissue types
• Wound characteristics, indications & cost considerations for product selection
• Accurate measurement techniques
• Practical strategies for treating your most severe wounds
• To practice new skills, you can use real wound models and samples of products

Millions of dollars are spent each year in healthcare facilities all over the country on wound management and skin care. You are on the front lines of providing care to patients with a variety of skin and wound conditions, and play a critical role in patient outcomes and your facility’s bottom line. There’s no better way than this hands-on method to master new problem solving skills.-On Clinical Lab. Participate in this interactive seminar to learn how to evaluate wounds by doing!

Wound Joan Junkin MSN, CNS is a wound care consultant and educator. She will help you learn new techniques for assessment and intervention using sample products and wound care teaching models. The Hands-On Clinical Lab You will be able to add live, hands-You can add a component to your learning that will improve your retention of the skills and techniques you have learned. On realistic wound care models, you can practice identification, measurement, as well as the application of various products. These models provide a life-Simulations can be used to improve the assessment and treatment of many different types of wounds including pressure ulcers, tissue types and tunneling. This hands-on course will help you improve your knowledge of wound care.-On-line interactive clinical laboratory Register Today – There is a limited space!

Here’s what you’ll get in Kim Saunders – The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Clinical Lab