Kim Saunders – Wound Care Documentation

Wound Care is a specialty because it’s a speciality. The successful management of wounds requires knowledge of etiology, diagnosis, treatment, documentation, and other essential elements. 

 Kim Saunders – Wound Care Documentation

• Wound Healing
  • The difficult phases of healing
  • There are ways to lower the risk factors that can lead to nonhealing
• Wound Assessment
  • Skin tones
  • Some clues about wound etiology
  • Predicting the healing process
  • Wound bed descriptors
• Principles of Wound Management
  • Wound care goals
  • Care plan development
  • Continuum of healthcare care: challenges to seamless care
• Assessment of nutrition
  • Align a patient’s nutritional needs with the wound healing goals
  • Resolve the nutritional deficiencies
  • Pressure injuries may require special nutritional requirements
• Special Populations
  • Bariatrics, neonates, and spinal cord injuries
• Pressure Injuries
  • NPUAP definitions & staging
  • Assessment tools, documentation, & treatment of DTPI
  • Mucosal pressure injuries
  • Medical devise-Pressure injuries related to this injury
  • For critically ill patients, pressure injuries
  • Skin failure
• MARSI & Abrasions
  • Types and types of medical-Adhesive related skin injuries
• Top: Mechanical Injuries-Down
  • Top-Bottom vs. down-up tissue damage
  • Moisture-Associated skin damage
  • Treatment and assessment of skin tear.

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Description:

Wound Care is a specialty because it’s a speciality. For successful wound management, it is essential to have a good understanding of etiology, diagnosis and treatment.  This video training will be more focused on documentation. However, it will also cover assessment and intervention which are key elements to accurately reflect in historical notes.

Kim Saunders, MSN/Ed, RN, CWON®, CFCN, will break down her practice tips as far as what you MUST start including in your charting.  Consider developing an initial plan for care for a newly diagnosed wound or an evolving plan to treat a non-infected wound.-There are many considerations when healing a wound.

This discussion will cover complex and fascinating patient cases.  You will have the time to critically think through what went right… and what went wrong…in comprehensive wound care both documented and provided.  You can avoid making costly mistakes and exposing yourself to professional or personal litigation.

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