Heidi Huddleston Cross, Kim Saunders & M. Dolores Farrer – The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Online Course

Heidi Huddleston Cross, Kim Saunders & M. Dolores Farrer – The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Online Course

• Are you struggling to find a solution for a difficult wound?
• Not sure what to do next for the patient that isn’t compliant?
• Need to find a treatment that is affordable for your patient?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this course is for you.

Even seasoned wound care specialists are confused by the complexity of treatment options and feel challenged to ensure compliance and keep patient costs low. To avoid amputations and life-threatening complications, you need solutions for challenging wounds that won’t heal.

In this comprehensive online course, three hand–selected experts with extensive wound, ostomy, and podiatry experience walk you step–by–step through:

• Dressing fundamentals for advanced practice
• Best medication and dressing combinations
• Dressing application demonstrations
• Cost saving strategies

Healing a wound is like baking a cake… it needs to be done in a certain order or it will not turn out the way you want it to.

Here’s what you will learn in this comprehensive online course:

Part 1:

The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Clinical Lab

• Tissue types found in chronic wounds
• Wound etiologies
• Terms used to document peri–wound status
• Accurate measurement and documentation of wounds, tunneling and undermining, according to the clock method
• Identify and categorize dressing types based on indications for use, precautions and contraindications
• Appropriate dressing/treatment protocol for a wound based upon exudate, wound status, and products

Part 2:

Advanced Wound Care Treatments for the Lower Extremity

• Proper treatment protocol for the most common lower extremity wounds
• The importance of off-loading and how to protect the wound from pressure
• Latest methods to reduce biofilm levels in chronic wounds
• Advanced tissue products and how to prepare the wound for application
• Major groups of dressings by structural characteristics and utility
• Compression devices, dressings and stockings
• Underlying physical and biological mechanisms for stress-induced delayed wound healing
• Communication techniques that encourage positive change in patient behavior

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