Kim Saunders – Wound Care Documentation: Assessment and Intervention Mistakes to Avoid
- Faculty:
- Kim Saunders
- Duration:
- 3 Hours 14 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Dec 11, 2017
Description
Handouts
| Manual – Wound Care Documentation (6.90 MB) | 110 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
- Wound Healing
- The complicated phases of healing
- Ways to reduce the risk factors that contribute to nonhealing
- Wound Assessment
- Skin tones
- Clues regarding wound etiology
- Predicting wound healing
- Wound bed descriptors
- Principles of Wound Management
- Wound care goals
- Developing the comprehensive plan of care
- Challenges to seamless care across healthcare continuum
- Nutrition Assessment
- Align a patient’s nutritional needs with the wound healing goals
- Address the compromised nutritional status
- Specific nutritional needs for a pressure injury
- Special Populations
- Neonates, geriatrics, bariatrics, spinal cord injuries
- Pressure Injuries
- NPUAP definitions & staging
- Assessment tools, documentation, & treatment of DTPI
- Mucosal pressure injuries
- Medical devise-related pressure injuries
- Pressure injuries in the critically ill patient
- Skin failure
- MARSI & Abrasions
- Types of medical-adhesive related skin injuries
- Mechanical Injuries: Top-down
- Top-down vs bottom-up tissue damage
- Moisture-associated skin damage
- Skin tear assessment and treatment
Faculty
Kim Saunders, MSN/ED, RN, CWON®, CFCN Related seminars and products: 12
WOC Consulting, LLC
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).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kim Saunders has an employment relationship with Pardee Home Health and WOC Consulting. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Kim Saunders has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
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