Wound Care: Latest Clinical and Professional Practice Updates

Introduction

Take This Course

This course provides an evidence-based approach to wound management to assist health care providers in staying current with the latest standards of care and sharpening their bedside skills and clinical judgment in the use of the most recent therapies. It also has a special feature that includes a professional practice core curriculum that is pertinent to building wound care programs and incorporates the most recent standards of practice and patient-centered principles for an integrated interdisciplinary care approach to wounds.

Objectives

By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Identify Skin Anatomy and Physiology
- Identify the wound types and what dressing/treatment modality to use accordingly for safe practice and enhanced patient outcomes
- Discuss Guidelines and Assessment tools for Wounds
- Discuss the care planning process and main hospital interventions aligned with assessment findings for improved patient outcomes
- Recognize the mechanism for conducting wound assessment using telehealth
- Explore the essential elements needed to initiate a successful wound care program
- Identify the quality improvement components of a wound care program

Main theme

In this 2-days course, the aim is to build the capacity and competency of all healthcare providers in wound care management at the bedside using the most recent evidence-based updates and provide comprehensive content to build and manage a wound care program at the healthcare system level.

This course is divided into a clinical and professional practice components:
- The clinical component will cover the anatomy and physiology of the integumentary system, wound pathology, and the wound healing process. Discuss the principles of management for a variety of wounds, appropriate measures of care for each, and various dressing/treatment plans for a wound based on exudate, wound status, and available wound products.
- The professional practice component will cover how to formulate effective wound care plans, provide patient-centered education for patients requiring wound management, the application of telehealth for enhanced wound care, understand the relevance of wound care safe nurse staffing, and quality improvement for a comprehensive wound management program.

Multidisciplinary approach to wound management
The following methods will be used to deliver the course and engage participants in the learning process:
 Powerpoint presentation
 Mental Simulation by case study discussion
 Discussion forum
 Mental simulation by video vignette discussion
 Practice exercises
 Reflective practice exercises
 Brainstorming

Speaker

Ms. Nadine El Hakim

Wound care consultant
Free lance
Nursing and Midwifery

Dr. Rana Abdel Malak

PhD, CPXP, CGNC, NEA-BC, FAAPM | Executive Healthcare Consultant | Surveyor| Faculty Member
Lebanese American University | Global Health Accreditation | American Nurses Credentialing Center | Partners & Beyond
Health Education