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Clinical Skills Wound Care Workshop, 4/17/2025 12:00:00 AM CDT, Digital Seminar More info »
Clinical Skills Wound Care Workshop
- Speaker:
- M. Dolores Farrer, DPM, MBA, CWS®
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 10 Minutes
- Copyright:
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Nov 02, 2021
- Publisher:
- PESI Inc.
- Product Code:
- RNV078290
- Media Type:
- DVD - Also available: Digital Seminar
Description
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. Because of that, we have developed a comprehensive one day wound care event!
The interactive presentation of proven wound care healing strategies will teach you how to address chronic wounds. Expand your understanding of the complexities facing the treatment of chronic wounds and improve your assessment skills. Dr. Farrer will cover the most common seen wound care conditions which includes staging a pressure injury, tissue types, undermining, tunneling, fissure, and surgical dehiscence. Learn how to best address bioburden, choose the best wound dressing, and when to consider tissue-based therapies.
Using wound care teaching models, interactive case studies, and skill labs, wound care expert, Dr. Dolores Farrer, will teach you proper wound assessment techniques. The hands-on clinical lab adds a component to learning that will enhance your retention of skills and techniques covered. Practice identification, measurement, and the applications of various products on real case scenarios.
Your practice will be elevated as you incorporate the current best practice standards into patient care. Watch this interactive learning experience!
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Speaker
M. Dolores Farrer, DPM, MBA, CWS® Related seminars and products
M. Dolores Farrer, DPM, MBA, CWS®, is a surgically trained podiatrist involved in wound care and limb salvage for over 32 years. She has been board-certified by the American Board of Wound Management (ABWH) since 2003 and proudly serves as secretary on the board of directors for the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC) for over four years.
Dr. Farrer works with a comprehensive multi-specialty wound care and hyperbaric oxygen therapy clinic in Columbia, South Carolina. She trains new wound care clinicians and uses real-world evidence with patient-centered outcomes that have resulted in above-average healing rates and decreased amputation rates. Dr. Farrer has experience in private practice, hospital inpatient, outpatient wound clinics, and nursing homes.
She enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience as a wound care expert in national speaking engagements. Dr. Farrer graduated from the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine and obtained her MBA in her hometown of New Orleans, LA.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dolores Farrer is the owner of Lagniappe Wound Care Consultants, LLC. She has an employment relationship with Physicians Footcare, and she receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. Dolores Farrer has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dolores Farrer is a Diplomate for the American Board of Wound Management and the American Board of Wound Healing, and a Fellow and Board of Directors Secretary for the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care.
Additional Info
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Objectives
- Distinguish between different tissue types found in chronic wounds.
- Determine the wound etiology to contribute to the treatment plan.
- Differentiate between acceptable terminology to document peri-wound status.
- Demonstrate accurate measurement and documentation of wounds, tunneling and undermining.
- Analyze the various dressing types to include indications for use, necessary precautions and possible contraindications.
- Develop an appropriate dressing/ treatment protocol for a wound based upon presentations.
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
- Eschar - Devitalized
- Dry Gangrene - Necrosis
- Epiboly - Rolled Edges
- Hyperkeratotic - Dry, Calloused Edges
- Epithelialization
- Peri-Wound Issues
- Macerated
- Desiccated
- Erythema
- Indurated
- Atrophic/Fibrotic
- Wound staging
- Tissue type identification
- Proper measuring techniques
- Tunneling/Undermining
- Taking pictures
- Phases of Healing
- Etiology, Appearance, Location, Exudates of:
- Arterial Insufficiency
- Venous Insufficiency
- Diabetic/Neuropathic
- Pressure Injury
- Skin Tears
HANDS-ON CLINICAL SKILL: Application of football dressing and other off-loading techniques
Wound Care Products
- Hydrogel, Hydrocolloid, Collagen
- Calcium Alginate/Hydrofiber
- Silver products, Foam, Honey
- Multi-layer compression
- Gauze/Composite
- Exudate determines dressing
Strategies to Select Primary Dressings
- Dry/Minimally Draining Wounds
- Hydrogel
- Oil emulsions
- Combinations
- Moderate/Heavy/Copious Drainage
- Alginates/Hydrofibers
- Topical Medications
- Critically Colonized/Infected Wounds/Biofilm
- Silver Dressings
- Silver Alginates/Hydrofibers, Hydrogels and Collagens
- Antimicrobial impregnated dressings
- Enzymatic debriders
- Cadexomer Iodine
- High-Osmolarity Surfactant (HOS)
- Cleansing agents and other topicals
- Cellular Tissue Products
- Autografts, Allografts, Xenografts
- Proper Application and Cost Considerations
HANDS-ON CLINICAL SKILL: Select dressing protocol for various wounds and discuss real case studies
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physician Assistants
- Physical Therapists
- Occupational Therapists
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