Understanding Basic and Advanced Wound Care
- Speaker:
- April Lumpkins, MSN, AGACNP-BC, CWOCN-AP®, CFCN
- Duration:
- 2 Hours
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
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Dec 08, 2022
- Product Code:
- POS078498
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Wound healing is a complicated process with success based on many different factors. One key factor for success is selecting the most appropriate wound dressing. With so many options available, learning about each dressing can be overwhelming. This recording will breakdown each of the most commonly used wound cleansers and dressings and explain how to select each one based on the wound presentation and patient’s needs.
Credit
Handouts/Brochure
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Understanding Basic and Advanced Wound Care (2.1 MB) | 43 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Understanding Basic and Advanced Wound Care (127.2 KB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
April Lumpkins, MSN, AGACNP-BC, CWOCN-AP®, CFCN Related seminars and products
April Lumpkins, MSN, AGACNP-BC, CWOCN-AP®, CFCN, is a Board-Certified Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner with twelve years’ experience in managing complex wounds and ostomies as a Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse and Certified Foot Care Nurse and two years in Hyperbaric Medicine. In addition to wound/ostomy care, her past responsibilities have included management, quality improvement, program development, health informatics, documentation improvement, research and clinical education.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: April Lumpkins has employment relationships with South Texas Wound Associates and International ATMO. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: April Lumpkins is a member of the American Nurses Association, the Wound Ostomy Continence Nursing Society, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the Texas Nurse Practitioners.
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Objectives
- Discuss wound management and goals of wound care.
- Discuss wound cleansing techniques and wound cleansing products.
- Discuss basic and advanced wound dressings.
- Discuss how wound dressings promote wound bed preparation and management of bioburden.
Outline
- Goals of Wound Care
- Promote wound bed preparation
- Managing bioburden and preventing infection
- Addressing physiological needs of the wound
- Facilitate granulation and epithelialization
- Protect wound and periwound from trauma
- Continuously evaluate for effectiveness of treatment plan
- Wound Cleansing techniques and cleansing agents
- Wound cleansing vs. irrigation
- Basic wound cleansers
- Commercially prepared wound cleansers
- Antiseptic wound cleansers
- Wound Dressings
- Understanding Primary, Secondary, and Securement dressings
- Basic wound dressings
- Advanced Wound Dressings
- Separated by category
- Includes wear time, indications, contraindications
- Antibacterial/Antimicrobial wound dressings
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Physical Therapy
- Physical Therapy Assistants
- Physicians
- Physicians Assistants
- Podiatrists
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