Wound & Continence Training

Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers & Lower Extremity Ulcers

Course Description:
This session will focus on the prevention, assessment and treatment of pressure ulcers and lower extremity ulcers (arterial, venous, and peripheral neuropathy/diabetic). The participant will get hands on training with risk assessment tools, wound measurement, staging and assessment and differentiating lower extremity ulcers from pressure ulcers. It will also address treatment options including: debridement of wounds, treating infection, support surfaces, topical treatments, compression therapy and adjunctive therapies. This session covers the F314 long term care regulation.

• Discuss risk factors that put a resident at risk of developing pressure ulcers and/or lower extremity ulcers
• Demonstrate how to use pressure ulcer risk assessment tools
• Describe prevention intervention strategies for pressure ulcers and lower extremity ulcers
• Identify etiologies of pressure ulcers and lower extremity ulcers, including differentiating arterial, venous and peripheral neuropathy/diabetic wounds.
• Describe how to complete a comprehensive assessment and document pressure ulcers and lower extremity wounds
• Define effective treatment strategies for pressure ulcers and lower extremity wounds

Target Audience:
Director of Nurses, Nurse Managers, RN’s and LPN’s, Wound Care Nurses, Therapists and Dieticians

6 Hour presentation

Risk Assessment and Prevention of Pressure Ulcers

Course Description:
This training session will assist your nurses in doing a comprehensive risk assessment, tissue tolerance assessment and give them preventative interventions. It will also provide Braden Scale completion and care planning exercises.

• Demonstrate how to properly assess individuals at risk for pressure ulcer development
• Discuss various interventions that are effective in preventing pressure ulcers

Target Audience:
Director of Nurses, Nurse Managers, RN’s and LPN’s

1 Hour presentation

Assessment & Documentation of Pressure Ulcers

Course Description:
This training session will provide your staff training on the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) pressure ulcer staging system. It includes exercises for the new staging system, measuring, wound base description and comprehensive description of pressure ulcers. This training will give your nurses the foundation necessary to help determine etiology and treatment of pressure ulcers.

• Describe etiologies of Pressure Ulcers
• Learn how to properly assess and describe a pressure ulcer
• Discuss how to properly document pressure ulcers

Target Audience:
Director of Nurses, Nurse Managers, RN’s and LPN’s

1 Hour presentation

Topical Treatment Strategies for Pressure Ulcers

Course Description:
This training session will help your nurses determine when and how to debride a wound. Provide them with how to determine and manage infection. Discuss how to determine the topical treatment. This course will also cover adjunctive pressure ulcer treatment modalities. Our wound care consultants are not affiliated with any wound care products, thereby providing you with an unbiased approach to pressure ulcer management.

• Discuss when debridement of pressure ulcers is necessary and the different methods of wound debridement
• Describe signs and symptoms of pressure ulcer infection and treatment options
• Define effective topical treatment strategies for pressure ulcers

Target Audience:
Director of Nurses, Nurse Managers, RN’s and LPN’s

1 Hour presentation

Assessment and Treatment of Lower Extremity Ulcers

Course Description:
Many clinicians have difficulty differentiating lower extremity ulcers (arterial, venous, or neuropathy) from pressure ulcers. If a lower extremity ulcer is mistaken as a pressure ulcer it can lead to a falsely high number of pressure ulcers on the facility’s quality indicators. It can also lead to improper treatment of these areas. This session will help clinicians differentiate lower extremity ulcers (arterial, venous and neuropathy) from pressure and provide appropriate assessment and treatment of arterial, venous and peripheral neuropathy ulcers.

• Be able to differentiate pressure ulcers from lower extremity ulcers
• Define the characteristics of venous, arterial and peripheral neuropathy/diabetic ulcers
• Describe effective strategies to prevent and manage lower extremity wounds.

Target Audience:
Director of Nurses, Nurse Managers, RN’s and LPN’s

1 Hour presentation

Implementation Strategies for Pressure Ulcer Programs

Course Description:
This course will provide the participant with effective strategies to implement a pressure ulcer prevention and treatment program. It utilizes the quality improvement approach and helps breakdown your systems so they are manageable. This course will cover those components needed for F314 in long term care.

• Describe practical strategies for implementing a pressure ulcer prevention and treatment program
• Discuss practical monitoring programs that can be used to evaluate and ensure your pressure ulcer program is on track and stays on track
• Identify pressure ulcer resources to keep your facility up-to-date with pressure ulcer prevention and treatment strategies

Target Audience:
Administrators, Directors of Nursing and Nurse Managers

1 Hour presentation

Management of Urinary Incontinence, UTI’s and Catheters

Course Description:
This session will review how to complete and analyze a comprehensive bowel & bladder assessment and a three day bowel & bladder screening. The attendees will utilize a hands on approach to complete case studies for individualized assessment, care planning and individualized interventions. This session will also cover the F315 regulations on urinary incontinence, identification of UTI’s and the use of catheters.

• Understand the assessment and evaluation of incontinence
• Characterize and identify the types of incontinence based on assessment
• Explain the importance of a three day voiding diary
• Identify treatment options for urinary incontinence
• Describe characteristics of a urinary tract infection
• Explain medical justification of indwelling catheters in relation to regulation F315

Target Audience:
Director of Nurses, Nurse Managers, RN’s and LPN’s

2 Hour presentation

Prevention of Pressure Ulcers & Management of Urinary Incontinence for Nursing Assistants

Course Description:
This course was developed specifically for the nursing assistant. It will provide them guidance to skin inspection, causes of pressure ulcers and provides them with preventive interventions. This course also teaches nursing assistants the signs and symptoms of the different types of incontinence that should be reported to the nurse. It covers the completion of a bowel and bladder diary and interventions to manage incontinence.

• Demonstrate how to properly prevent pressure ulcer development
• Discuss various interventions to manage incontinence

Target Audience:
Nursing Assistants

1 Hour presentation

NOTE: ALL of our training sessions can be tailored to your facilities specific needs