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Ann Kahl Taylor & Heidi Huddleston Cross – Wound Care and Documentation Essentials
Will Your Wound Care and Documentation Hold Up in Court?
Does this sound familiar…
You enter a patient’s room for the first time, analyze their chart, but can’t quite understand the previous care provided. Or, maybe the care plan prescribed doesn’t match their risk assessment numbers.
Don’t worry, we are here to help.
Wound care in today’s healthcare environment is more challenging than ever— and let’s face it, terrifying. Lawsuits related to wounds are increasingly common in both acute and long-term care settings. In this course you’ll get many of the answers you need to help keep patients from suing, and keep lawyers and regulatory bodies at bay to keep you and your facility out of court.
After this course, you will have a wealth of assessment and treatment techniques to bring your skin and wound management skills to a new level! Most importantly, gain confidence and peace of mind that the treatment plan implemented will improve patient outcomes AND legally–defensible documentation to protect your clients and your license.
Providing the best patient care comes with risks. Avoid legal implications and gain expert-level wound management skills with this comprehensive, self-paced online course.
Learn the latest intervention strategies for successful skin and wound care, including:
cleansing, debridement and dressing application
infection control challenges and solutions
the best methods for documenting skin and wound care
the latest products for cleansing, moisturizing, sealing, and protecting
dressing options and selection rationale
assessment essentials & legally–defensible documentation
Module 1:
Skin & Wound Care: 15 Assessment and Treatment Techniques You Didn’t Know
with Ann Kahl Taylor, MS, RN, CWOCN®
A comprehensive plan of care to promote optimal wound healing
Ability to identify characteristics of vascular, neuropathic and pressure ulcers, including deep tissue injury
Effective strategies and techniques for simple and complicated ostomies
New interventions techniques useful to support successful wound healing
Appropriate interventions for urinary and fecal incontinence
Tools to assist with assessment and management of patients with wounds, ostomies and incontinence
Module 2:
Legal and Regulatory Issues in Wound Care: Avoid Wound Issues and Keep Yourself Out of Court
with Heidi Huddleston Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWOCN®
Understand U.S. legal system and the current wound litigation environment
Regulatory and legal principles of wound care
The essentials of wound assessments and legally-defensible documentation
Necessary communications to avoid wound issues and keep yourself out of court
How to establish a wound program that is legally defensible
Evaluate high-risk wound care situations that are prone to litigation
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Learn more about the speakers:
Ann Kahl Taylor, MS, RN, CWOCN®
Ann Kahl Taylor is currently a Certified Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurse (CWOCN®) and Infection Preventionist at a hospital in the Atlanta area. She has over 15 years’ experience in her specialty and is the owner of Kahl WOC Consults, providing a variety of wound, ostomy, and continence services in long term care, home health and hospice. In addition to her clinical practice, Ann also provides consultation for litigation related to wound care. She established a continence center and wound care protocols for acute and chronic care settings.
Ann is an active member of the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN), and has served in a number of regional leadership positions. Presently, she serves on the Marketing Committee of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing Certification Board™. Ann has published extensive wound and continence research abstracts with the WOCN Society and has presented her findings at national conferences. She has authored and coauthored articles for Ostomy Wound Management and Journal of Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Ann Kahl Taylor is the owner of Kahl WOC Consults. She has an employment relationship with Spalding Regional Medical Center. Ms. Kahl Taylor receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. Nonfinancial: Ann Kahl Taylor is a member of the national Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN). She is a member of the WOCN Certification Board, Marketing Committee.
Heidi Huddleston Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWOCN®
Heidi Huddleston Cross is currently a Nurse Practitioner in wound and ostomy care at Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, New York. She is board certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and as a Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurse (CWOCN®). Heidi has extensive experience in outpatient wound care, and serves as a consultant for long-term care facilities.
Heidi is a member of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society™, and traveled to Russia with the WOCN as part of the People to People Ambassador program. She is and has been a participant or chair of multiple national committees related to wound and ostomy care, including chair of the WOCN Certification Board exam committee, and the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel guidelines committee. She is active with the United Ostomy Associations of America (UOAA), having spoken at regional and national conferences. In 2008, she received the UOAA Ostomy Nurse of the Year award and, in 2011, the Convatec Great Comebacks Nurse of the Year award. She is published in the Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing, as well as in the Journal of Wound Technology, and has done legal case review as an expert witness in wound care.
Heidi is a sought-after speaker, and is passionate about wound and ostomy care. She loves to teach healthcare professionals with the goal of bringing knowledge about this topic to a new level, incorporating evidence-based practice. In this small way, Heidi hopes to improve care for wound and ostomy patients nationwide.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Heidi Huddleston Cross has an employment relationship with Upstate University Hospital. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. Nonfinancial: Heidi Huddleston Cross is a member of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses (WOCN) Society.
Learning that Fits Your Schedule:
Watch the videos at your own pace. Access all course videos and materials online forever. Plus, use the CE21 Mobile™ app to access the course content on-the-go, wherever and whenever you want on your mobile devices.
Add the full video downloads to your reference library to reference again and again in the future.
Interact and collaborate with other professionals in the online community through chat boards and online forums. Share your reactions, exchange ideas, ask questions, and network with your peers.
Complete your CE tests online. Once you pass, you can print your CE certificate online instantly – earn up to 12.5 CE hours.
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