Wound care is a specialty for a reason. Correct etiology assignment, diagnostics, treatment, and documentation are essential pieces of knowledge in the successful management of wounds.
Kim Saunders – Wound Care Documentation
Wound Healing
The complicated phases of healing
Ways to reduce the risk factors that contribute to nonhealing
Wound Assessment
Skin tones
Clues regarding wound etiology
Predicting wound healing
Wound bed descriptors
Principles of Wound Management
Wound care goals
Developing the comprehensive plan of care
Challenges to seamless care across healthcare continuum
Nutrition Assessment
Align a patient’s nutritional needs with the wound healing goals
Address the compromised nutritional status
Specific nutritional needs for a pressure injury
Special Populations
Neonates, geriatrics, bariatrics, spinal cord injuries
Pressure Injuries
NPUAP definitions & staging
Assessment tools, documentation, & treatment of DTPI
Mucosal pressure injuries
Medical devise-related pressure injuries
Pressure injuries in the critically ill patient
Skin failure
MARSI & Abrasions
Types of medical-adhesive related skin injuries
Mechanical Injuries: Top-down
Top-down vs bottom-up tissue damage
Moisture-associated skin damage
Skin tear assessment and treatment
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Description:
Wound care is a specialty for a reason. Correct etiology assignment, diagnostics, treatment, and documentation are essential pieces of knowledge in the successful management of wounds. While this video training will focus more specifically on documentation, the assessment and intervention are the key factors to accurately reflect in the historical notes made.
Kim Saunders, MSN/Ed, RN, CWON®, CFCN, will break down her practice tips as far as what you MUST start including in your charting. As you consider development of an initial plan of care for a newly identified wound or an evolving treatment plan to address a non-healing wound, there are considerations that need to be made clear in your written thought process.
Fascinating and complicated patient scenarios will be presented during this discussion. You will have the time to critically think through what went right… and what went wrong…in comprehensive wound care both documented and provided. Learn now how to avoid the mistakes that could lead you down a frightening path, confronting personal or professional litigation.
Here’s What You’ll Get in Kim Saunders – Wound Care Documentation