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Instructional Level: Beginner

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Course Outline:

Hour 1

  • What is and is not a pressure injury
  • Updated definitions of Pressure Injury Staging
  • Specific components of a wound assessment
  • Medical terminology describing the characteristics of the wound
  • What are the causes of pressure injuries
  • Which areas of the body are at higher risk
  • How to write specific goals to address wound healing and mobility

Hour 2

  • How to document progress using a math formula to demonstrate % healing
  • Biophysical Agents: parameters
  • Positioning and Mobility investigation & interventions
  • Coding Pressure Injury with the ICD-10 system. Online manuals
  • Choosing Treatment Diagnosis
  • The components of the Therapy evaluation Narrative
  • Treatment Documentation and Biophysical Agent billing
  • Education and Training of Patient, Staff, Caregivers
  • Therapists contribute to the team with Biophysical Agents, Sharps Debridement, and unique knowledge of range of motion, strengthening, mobility, gait, offloading, and return to function

Author

Sandra Villam, PT, WCC

Wound Care for the Therapist: How to Assess, Investigate, and Treat a Pressure Injury

Wound Care for the Therapist: How to Assess, Investigate, and Treat a Pressure Injury

2 Hours Instructional Level: Beginner
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Description:

Therapists have much to offer the wound care team, but many therapists do not feel adequate in assessing a wound, writing goals, or documenting. This is an Entry to Intermediate level course that outlines what a pressure injury is (and is not), how to assess a pressure injury, what factors may have caused and/or contribute to a pressure injury, and how to write an effective therapy plan of care for the treatment of a patient with a pressure injury.

Full Course Description
Therapists have much to offer the wound care team, but many therapists do not feel adequate in assessing a wound, writing goals, or documenting. This is an Entry to Intermediate level course that outlines what a pressure injury is (and is not), how to assess a pressure injury, what factors may have caused and/or contribute to a pressure injury, and how to write an effective therapy plan of care for the treatment of a patient with...

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

This course is intended to instruct the professional on gaining a clear understanding of a harassment-free workplace and comply with policy and state laws.

Professional Objectives:

  1. Recognize a pressure injury
  2. Define up-to-date terminology to stage a Pressure Injury
  3. Identify the components of a wound assessment
  4. Recognize intrinsic and extrinsic factors that contribute to pressure injuries
  5. Recognize measurable goals
  6. Identify and select therapeutic interventions specific to patients with a pressure injury
  7. Recognize accurate and sufficient ICD-10 coding of a pressure injury
  8. Identify key components of therapy documentation
  9. Identify effective therapist involvement on a wound care team

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

This course is intended to instruct the professional on gaining a clear understanding of a harassment-free workplace and comply with policy and state laws.

Professional Objectives:

  1. Recognize a pressure injury
  2. Define up-to-date terminology to stage a Pressure Injury
  3. Identify the components of a wound assessment
  4. Recognize intrinsic and extrinsic factors that contribute to pressure injuries
  5. Recognize measurable goals
  6. Identify and select therapeutic interventions specific to patients with a pressure injury
  7. Recognize accurate and sufficient ICD-10 coding of a pressure injury
  8. Identify key components of therapy documentation
  9. Identify effective therapist involvement on a wound care team

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: 2 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, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant

Instructional Level: Beginner

AOTA logoColibri Healthcare, LLC is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. AOTA Provider #9118. This distance learning-independent course is offered at 0.2 CEUs/Contact Hours noted above to Occupational Therapists and OTAs. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA or indicate AOTA approval of a certification or other professional recognition.

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 – Sandra Villam is employed by Olympic Medical Center and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

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

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: 2 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, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant

Instructional Level: Beginner

AOTA logoColibri Healthcare, LLC is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. AOTA Provider #9118. This distance learning-independent course is offered at 0.2 CEUs/Contact Hours noted above to Occupational Therapists and OTAs. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA or indicate AOTA approval of a certification or other professional recognition.

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 – Sandra Villam is employed by Olympic Medical Center and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

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