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Exploring the Essential Features of “Ann Kahl Taylor & Heidi Huddleston Cross – Wound Care and Documentation Essentials Protect Yourself and Your Patient”
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’s, 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
Here’s what you’ll learn in this comprehensive online course
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
Bonus: Plus, when you register today, you’ll get this additional bonus:
Wound Care Pocket Guide: Clinical Reference
PDF Book Download by Kim Saunders, MSN/ED, RN, CWON®, CFCN
Extraneous situations will arise in nursing, making it imperative to develop intentional methods of documentation. By putting together an effective system, you will decrease your chances of being sued. For the future of nursing documentation, the EMR is not the answer, a personal system of accountability is.
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.
- 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.
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