The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Clinical Lab

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Ann Kahl Taylor, MS, RN, CWOCN® Related seminars and products

Kahl WOC Consultants

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Ann Taylor, MS, RN, CWOCN®, created Kahl WOC Consultants in 2002 to provide wound care and legal consults across the care settings. With over 20 years’ experience as a specialty nurse in wound, ostomy and continence nursing, she has vast experience to reduce risk of legal exposure through incorporation of current wound management trends and protocols.

Ann’s commitment to clinical excellence and patient outcomes is evident by her committee work with the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society. She currently serves on the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Certification Board on the certification exam committee. As an author, Ann has over 20 clinical wound abstracts and has created numerous policies, algorithms and guidelines for use in practice. Additionally, her practice in the legal consulting arena is busy and continues to grow.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Ann Taylor maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Southern Regional Hospital, Ted's Right at Home.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.

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Objectives

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

Outline

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

Target Audience

• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners
• Nurse Educators
• Physician Assistants
• Physical Therapists
• Nursing Home Administrators