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Instructional Level: Advanced

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Course Outline:

Hour 1

  • Skin layers and how each has a role in wound regeneration
  • How growth factors aid in wound healing
  • How growth factors are being studied for their interaction with wound healing/tissue regeneration

Hour 2

  • The main hormones that interfere with wound healing
  • Malnutrition and undernutrition in our patients
  • Assessment tools to screen patients

Hour 3

  • What constitutes an infection?
  • Major players of infection
  • Advanced dressings for wounds
  • Lymphedema and when to apply compression

Author

Bettina M. Brown, MPT, MHA, CWS, CLT

Advanced Wound Care Concepts

Advanced Wound Care Concepts

3 Hours Instructional Level: Advanced
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Description:

Chronic wounds are known for their large share of healthcare cost and limiting quality of life for many patients. Therefore, it is important for healthcare professionals to have the knowledge necessary to identify causes which limit wound healing progression, to provide the ideal environment for wound healing, and to understand the intrinsic and extrinsic variables at play.

This course, Advanced Wound Care Concepts, dives into each of these topics and expounds on how edema, malnutrition, and biochemical pathways lead to the development of chronic wounds.

Full Course Description
Chronic wounds are known for their large share of healthcare cost and limiting quality of life for many patients. Therefore, it is important for healthcare professionals to have the knowledge necessary to identify causes which limit wound healing progression, to provide the ideal environment for wound healing, and to understand the intrinsic and extrinsic variables at play.This course, Advanced Wound Care Concepts, dives into each of these topics and expounds on how edema, malnutrition, and...

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

This course is intended to instruct the professional to address other factors in wound care besides wound dressings. 

Professional Objectives:

  1. Recognize physiology and biochemistry of wound healing in various phases.
  2. Identify the influence of hormones in wound healing.
  3. Identify the influence of hormones in wound healing.
  4. Recognize how malnutrition can negatively affect wound healing.
  5. Recognize common infection sources in chronic wounds.
  6. Recognize common infection sources in chronic wounds.
  7. Identify how bioactive and interactive dressings can be used to treat wounds.
  8. Recognize edema, lymphedema and use of compression when appropriate.

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

This course is intended to instruct the professional to address other factors in wound care besides wound dressings. 

Professional Objectives:

  1. Recognize physiology and biochemistry of wound healing in various phases.
  2. Identify the influence of hormones in wound healing.
  3. Identify the influence of hormones in wound healing.
  4. Recognize how malnutrition can negatively affect wound healing.
  5. Recognize common infection sources in chronic wounds.
  6. Recognize common infection sources in chronic wounds.
  7. Identify how bioactive and interactive dressings can be used to treat wounds.
  8. Recognize edema, lymphedema and use of compression when appropriate.

Disclosures:

SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND 

"Seminar-On-Demand" course are streamed on your web browser if the online version if purchased. Our SODs are optimized for the most current versions of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. All SOD courses are mobile ready.

Contact Hours: 3 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Nurse, Athetic Trainers

Instructional Level: Advanced

Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – Bettina Brown is employed by Lovelace Westside Hospital and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service

Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.

Disclosures:

SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND 

"Seminar-On-Demand" course are streamed on your web browser if the online version if purchased. Our SODs are optimized for the most current versions of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. All SOD courses are mobile ready.

Contact Hours: 3 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Nurse, Athetic Trainers

Instructional Level: Advanced

Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – Bettina Brown is employed by Lovelace Westside Hospital and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service

Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.

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