The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Clinical Lab – Kim Saunders
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- Faculty:
- Kim Saunders
- Duration:
- 5 Hours 32 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Mar 13, 2019
Description
In healthcare facilities across the country, billions of dollars are being spent annually on the treatment of skin care and wound management. 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 reimbursement for services. There is no better way to learn all of the skills you need to provide state-of-the-art care for your patients than through Hands-On Clinical Labs. Attend this highly interactive live webcast and learn wound care assessment skills by DOING!
Through the use of wound care teaching models, wound care expert, Kim Saunders, will teach you proper wound assessment techniques. The Hands-On Clinical Lab will add a live, hands-on component to learning that will enhance your retention of skills and techniques covered. Practice identification, measurement and the applications of various products on life-like wound care models. These models provide a life-like simulation to allow for improved assessment of a wide variety of commonly-seen wound care presentations, including all stages of pressure ulcers, tissue types, undermining, tunneling, fissure and surgical dehiscence.
Take your understanding of wound care to the next level with this hands-on, interactive clinical lab recording.
Handouts
| Manual – The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Clinical Lab (20.70 MB) | 94 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
Wound Bed Tissue Types: Presentation & Treatment
- Epithelial Tissue
- Granulation Tissue
- Healthy Granulation
- Hypergranulation
- Fibrin
- Scaffolding for granulation
- Characteristics of presentation
- Necrotic – When to remove, when to leave alone
- Slough – Devitalized, must be debrided
- Eschar – Devitalized
- Dry Gangrene – Necrosis/Tissue Demise
Wound Margin Issues and Strategies
- Epiboly – Rolled Edges
- Hyperkeratotic – Dry, Calloused Edges
- Jagged
- Epithelialization
- Peri-Wound Issues
- Macerated
- Desiccated
- Erythema
- Indurated
- Atrophic/Fibrotic
- Fluctuant
Characteristics of Common Wounds
- Phases of Healing
- Etiology, Appearance, Location, Exudates
- Arterial Insufficiency
- Venous Insufficiency
- Diabetic/Neuropathic
- Pressure Ulcers – Demystifying Staging
- Skin Tears
Hands-On Clinical Lab
- Using the latest in wound care model technology, participate in skill-based exercises in:
- Wound staging
- Tissue type identification
- Proper measuring techniques
- Tunneling/Undermining
- Wound care product awareness and application
HANDS-ON LAB
Wound Care Products
- Characteristics of Each Dressing Category
- Hydrogel, Hydrocolloid, Collagen
- Calcium Alginate/Hydrofiber
- Silver products, Foam, Honey
- Multi-layer compression
- Gauze/Composite
- Exudate determines dressing
Strategies to Select Primary Dressings for:
- Dry/Minimally Draining Wounds
- Hydrogel
- Oil emulsions
- Ringer’s Lactate impregnated
- Combinations
- Moderate/Heavy/Copious drainage
- Alginates/Hydrofibers
- Topical Medications
- Critically Colonized/Infected Wounds
- Silver Dressings
- Silver Alginates/Hydrofibers, Hydrogels and Collagens
- Antimicrobial impregnated dressings
- Enzymatic debriders
- Cleansing agents and other topicals
- Proper Application and Cost Considerations
- Alternative Options and Substitutions
Faculty
Kim Saunders, MSN/ED, RN, CWON®, CFCN Related seminars and products: 12
WOC Consulting, LLC
Kim Saunders, MSN/ED, RN, CWON®, CFCN, has extensive experiences as a wound, ostomy, and continence nurse across a variety of settings, including acute care, hospice, home health and skilled nursing facilities. As a respected expert in her field, Kim evolved her practice to be able to more fully share her insights as co-owner of WOC Consulting, LLC. In this role, she consults with healthcare systems on a variety of challenges that develop related to wound, ostomy, and incontinence-associated dermatitis. Some of the special projects her knowledge has been sought for include: guiding standardization of wound care formularies and pressure-relieving device selections, as well as a myriad of other processes to standardize and improve upon existing skin and wound care delivery. Her wound care experience goes beyond trouble-shooting the most challenging of patient wounds. It also includes expertise regarding the increasingly important ability to incorporate cost-effective care and reimbursement considerations at the bedside.
Kim is an active member of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society™ and the Advanced Wound Care Society. She has traveled the country extensively to deliver practice-changing wound care trainings to experienced healthcare professionals. Kim is also the author of the Wound Care Pocket Guide: Clinical Reference, Second Edition (PESI, 2017).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kim Saunders has an employment relationship with Pardee Home Health and WOC Consulting. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Kim Saunders has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
