Kim Saunders, Dolores Farrer & Heidi Huddleston Cross – The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Training Course

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Are you struggling to find a solution for a difficult wound?

Not sure what to do next for the patient that isn’t compliant?

Need to find a treatment that is affordable for your patient?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this course is for you.

Even seasoned wound care specialists are confused by the complexity of treatment options and feel challenged to ensure compliance and keep patient costs low. To avoid amputations and life-threatening complications, you need solutions for challenging wounds that won’t heal.

In this comprehensive online course, three hand–selected experts with extensive wound, ostomy, and podiatry experience walk you step–by–step through:

• Dressing fundamentals for advanced practice
• Best medication and dressing combinations
• Dressing application demonstrations
• Cost saving strategies

Healing a wound is like baking a cake… it needs to be done in a certain order or it will not turn out the way you want it to. Get the recipe to treat the toughest wounds today and start treating the whole patient not the hole in the patient.

Here’s what you will learn in this comprehensive online course:

Part 1: The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Clinical Lab

with Kim Saunders, MSN/ED, RN, CWON®, CFCN

• Tissue types found in chronic wounds
• Wound etiologies
• Terms used to document peri–wound status
• Accurate measurement and documentation of wounds, tunneling and undermining, according to the clock method
• Identify and categorize dressing types based on indications for use, precautions and contraindications
• Appropriate dressing/treatment protocol for a wound based upon exudate, wound status, and products

Part 2: Advanced Wound Care Treatments for the Lower Extremity

with M. Dolores Farrer, DPM, MBA, CWS

• Proper treatment protocol for the most common lower extremity wounds
• The importance of off-loading and how to protect the wound from pressure
• Latest methods to reduce biofilm levels in chronic wounds
• Advanced tissue products and how to prepare the wound for application
• Major groups of dressings by structural characteristics and utility
• Compression devices, dressings and stockings
• Underlying physical and biological mechanisms for stress-induced delayed wound healing
• Communication techniques that encourage positive change in patient behavior

Plus, when you register today, you will get these additional bonuses 

Bonus 1: Is it a pressure ulcer or moisture-associated skin damage? Wound identification tips, prevention strategies and tissue pressure management systems

with Heidi Huddleston Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON®

Digital Seminar

Wound care expert Heidi Huddleston Cross has been in your shoes. She struggled to manage a busy schedule and heavy patient load, and still keep up with all of the changes in protocols, products and treatment options. Instead of overwhelming you with every wound you may see in your day, Heidi will focus on two of the most common and tricky conditions you will face: pressure ulcers and moisture-associated skin damage. In one short session, Heidi will teach you the assessment and treatment techniques you didn’t know and bring your pressure and moisture-associated skin and wound management skills to a new level!

Bonus 2: Palliative Wound Care: Realistic Wound Management Goals and Best-Practice Guidelines

with Heidi Huddleston Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON®

Digital Seminar

Relieving symptoms related to wounds at the end of life is often overwhelming and challenging. Palliative wound care incorporates goal setting, complex symptom management, and patient and caregiver education. Maintaining the patient’s dignity and the highest quality of life is essential when caring for these patients. This information-packed digital seminar will enhance your palliative wound care skills, and leave you feeling confident in developing an effective wound care plan to manage these complex wounds.

Heidi Huddleston Cross shares her passion and extensive experience in the field of caring for very fragile patients in hospice and palliative care settings. She will share techniques to best manage symptoms related to the wound, such as pain, odor, exudate containment, and bleeding, while preserving the patient’s dignity and quality of life. Don’t miss this opportunity to become the palliative wound care expert in your facility and make a difference in the patients in your care.

Nurses like you rave about the teaching style of our experts:

Kim Saunders, MSN/ED, RN, CWON®, CFCN, has extensive experiences as a wound, ostomy, and continence nurse across a variety of settings, including acute care, hospice, home health and skilled nursing facilities. As a respected expert in her field, Kim evolved her practice to be able to more fully share her insights as co-owner of WOC Consulting, LLC. In this role, she consults with healthcare systems on a variety of challenges that develop related to wound, ostomy, and incontinence-associated dermatitis. Some of the special projects her knowledge has been sought for include: guiding standardization of wound care formularies and pressure-relieving device selections, as well as a myriad of other processes to standardize and improve upon existing skin and wound care delivery. Her wound care experience goes beyond trouble-shooting the most challenging of patient wounds. It also includes expertise regarding the increasingly important ability to incorporate cost-effective care and reimbursement considerations at the bedside.Kim is an active member of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society™ and the Advanced Wound Care Society. She has traveled the country extensively to deliver practice-changing wound care trainings to experienced healthcare professionals. Kim is also the author of the Wound Care Pocket Guide: Clinical Reference, Second Edition (PESI, 2017).
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M. Dolores Farrer, DPM, MBA, CWS, is a surgically trained podiatrist involved in lower extremity wound care for over 23 years. She is board certified by the American Board of Wound Management for over 13 years. For the past 8 years, Dr. Farrer has worked at the DORN VA Hospital in Columbia, SC providing our nation’s heroes with a comprehensive multi-specialty wound care program that has resulted in above average healing rates and decreased amputation rates. She is also The Primary Investigator involved in several research projects on new technologies in wound care products.

Dr. Farrer has experience in private practice, hospital out-patient wound clinics, and nursing homes. She has spoken nationally and enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience as a wound care expert in an interactive and energetic fashion that will keep you engaged. She is a graduate of the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine and obtained her MBA in her home town of New Orleans, LA.
Click here for information about M. Dolores Farrer.

Heidi Huddleston Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON®, is a board-certified Wound and Ostomy Nurse and a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner in Syracuse, NY. She has extensive experience caring for wound and ostomy patients in acute care, as well as in long term care facilities. Currently, she is employed by CNY Surgical Physicians consulting for nursing homes in the Syracuse area, and has her own independent practice as an expert witness for plaintiff and defense attorneys.

Ms. Cross is a member of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society, the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, and the American Nurses Association. She has served on numerous committees related to wound and ostomy care, including as chair of the Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing Certification Board examination committee, the credential and review committee, and the marketing committee. For the Wound and Ostomy Nurses Society, she is the co-chair of the National Conference Planning Committee ostomy track, has done peer review for the Journal of Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing (JWOCN), and was the recipient of a grant from the Center for Clinical Investigation Research. She participated in developing the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers in 2014.

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