The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Clinical Lab

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. Watch this highly interactive training and learn wound care assessment skills by DOING!

Through the use of wound care teaching models, wound care expert, Ann Kahl Taylor, will teach you proper wound assessment techniques. The Hands-On Clinical Lab will add a 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.

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Wound Assessment Strategies

• Tissue types/wound bed evaluation
• Necrotic tissue, granulation, hyper granulation, agranular
• Phases of wound healing , chronicity
• Factors impacting wound healing
• SKILL: Techniques for accurate wound measurements

Top Down Skin Injuries

• MARSI Medical Adhesive Associated
• Skin Damage
• MASD Moisture Associated Skin Damage
• IAD-incontinence Associated Dermatitis
• ITT-Intertrigo
• Skin Tears
• SKILL: Support periwound protection

Pressure Injuries

• Demystify staging
• Prevention: What have you overlooked?
• Risk assessment
• Treatment and dressing selection
• SKILL: Executing the risk assessment

Lower Extremity Wounds

• Arterial, venous, neuropathic
• Differentiate etiologies
• Appropriate therapies
• SKILL: Practice compression wrapping

Fistula and Ostomies

• Types of diverion
• Pouch Selection
• SKILL: Pouch application

Strategies for Topical Dressing Selection

• Dressing selection process – samples to compare
• When is gauze appropriate?
• Essential toolkit items:
  • Cleansers
  • Debridement options
  • Gels, collagen
  • Absorptive products, foam
  • Antimicrobial, silver
  • Heavy drainage versus minimal
  • Large area wounds
  • Dress difficult locations, tracts and undermining
• SKILL: Select dressing protocol for various wounds

• Distinguish at least 6 tissue types found in chronic wounds.
• Identify and differentiate at least 4 wound etiologies.
• Compare and contrast 6 terms used to document peri-wound status.
• Demonstrate accurate measurement and documentation of wounds, tunneling and undermining, according to the clock method, using a wound teaching model.
• Identify and categorize at least 7 dressing types, including the indications for use, precautions and contraindications.
• Develop an appropriate dressing/ treatment protocol for a wound, based upon exudate, wound status, and products discussed.

Financial: Ann Taylor is the owner of Kahl WOC Consults. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Ann Taylor is a member of the National WOCN/SER WOCN (Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society) and of the WOCN Certification Exam Committee.