Kim Saunders – The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Clinical Lab

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In healthcare facilities across the country, billions of dollars are being spent annually on 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 bottom line. There is no better way to learn new problem solving skills than through this Hands-On Clinical Lab. Attend this highly interactive seminar and learn wound care assessment skills by DOING!

Wound care educator and consultant, Joan Junkin, MSN, CNS, will teach you new strategies for wound assessment and interventions, using wound care teaching models and sample products. 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 realistic wound care models. These models provide a life-like simulation to allow for improved assessment and treatment of a wide variety of 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.

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Wound Bed Tissue Types: Presentation & Treatment

• Epithelial Tissue
• Granulation Tissue
  • Healthy Granulation
  • Hypergranulation
• Necrotic – When and how to debride
  • Slough – Moist, devitalized tissue
  • Eschar – Dry devitalized tissue
  • 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: Normal vs. chronic
• Etiology, location, characteristics
• 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

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