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Skin & Wound Care with Joan Junkin

Skin & Wound Care download

All of the essentials necessary for state-of-the-art care for your patients including:

• Types of Wounds
• Infection Control
• Methods of Healing
• Non-Healing Wounds
• Acute & Chronic Wounds
• Best Use of Wound Products

As budgets shrink and those with a wound present more challenging comorbidities, we can sharpen our practices in order to prevent or heal wounds more effectively. Join us as we explore the tools needed to navigate that minefield. Busy clinicians often don’t have time to view the latest guidelines and science, so this information will be presented in a way that makes it easy to incorporate into your practice. Joan Junkin is passionate about skin health and wound healing, but also recognizes that caregivers need endorphins as much as patients do. Therefore, you can expect occasional doses of humor to sweeten the day, along with the best interventions, devices and modalities available.

We’ll focus on methods proven to prevent or speed healing for the especially challenging diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, those related to lower extremity edema and vascular ulcers. Joan provides a fresh perspective to help with the ever difficult patient education and motivation. A big emphasis will be placed on infection control methods. This seminar is your one-stop shop for essentials to improve your wound prevention and treatment knowledge and skills.

If we want a better outcome for wound healing, we must change our practice! Join us as we learn to base our practice on the evidence that is available.

OUTLINE

Keeping skin in balance: adding that ‘ounce of prevention’

• Moisture, oil, bacteria, and acid balance – review of epidermal and dermal differences
• Skin – first line of defense; how our skin manages to protect us and how we can help it succeed

Preventing traumatic skin injury

• Skin tears, abrasions, tape burns
• Simple methods of reducing friction between skin and other surfaces

Incontinence associated dermatitis

• Prevention and treatment – evidence-informed international guidelines
• Frequent incontinence needs high intensity prevention
  • Acidic skin cleanser and protectant necessary
  • Incontinence cloths can reduce friction, have acidic cleansers and built-in protectants
  • Under pads/protective garments

Accurately assessing the buttocks – pressure ulcers vs other common buttock ulcers

• Location, shape, color, depth
• Case studies using a systematic assessment method

Fecal incontinence

• Steps to improve stool consistency
• Collection devices pros and cons

Fungal rashes

• Options of what to use and when to treat fungus
• Natural ways to control and prevent re-infection

Wound healing essentials

• Phases of healing a full-thickness ulcer
• Wound assessment techniques
• Team approach to wound healing, including the patient/family
• Making use of nutrition and endorphins to speed healing

Wound bed preparation to assure best possible healing

• Best cleansing – takes more than saline
• Aggressive antiseptic cleansers
• Biofilm – invisible shield for bacteria
• Gentle and effective antiseptic wound cleansers

Debridement of non-viable tissues – an important part of infection control

• Compare methods – each has pros and cons
• Discuss new soft pad for mechanical debridement (breaks biofilm too)

Dressings help with moisture and bacterial balance in wounds

• Many antiseptic dressings available – new category is germ traps
• Super-absorbent options – not just foam and alginate any more
• How to choose a dressing based on wound characteristics
• How to decrease costs using products included on your buying contract
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  A. Product Quality

  • We ensure that the quality of the course is good.
  • If there is a problem you can not use, please let us know so we can fix it soon or if there is any notification, we will inform you immediately.

  B. Shipping Method

  • After receiving your payment, we will send you a link to access and download the course. If our team is not in the office, please wait for us about 8 hours to come back.

  C. Refund Policy

  • We do not accept refund after you got the link and download the course.
  • We will refund your money in case of:
    1. Item is not as described
    2. Item doesn’t work the way it should