Wound Management and Skin Integrity
10.00
CPD
Hours
10.00
RCNA
Points
Event Type:
Duration:
Relevant To:
Seminar
Two Days
All Nurses
General Description
Wound Management and Skin Integrity is an essential symposium for nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals. In the past few years Ausmed has educated thousands of nurses across Australia on this topic. The lecturers are very popular, highly adept teachers who are consistently very highly evaluated.
This symposium aims to provide an accurate, evidence-based update about the fundamentals of effective wound care. The correct use of wound dressings are included in this program.
If you have identified a professional need to improve your understanding of wound care as part of your planned learning activities, then this program will offer you an opportunity to gain continuing professional development (CPD) hours related to this topic.
Need for Program
Most nurses are required to care for people with wounds as part of their clinical practice. Incorrectly managing a wound can cause unnecessary suffering, extended professional care and may involve costly wound dressings. New evidence is continually emerging on the best way to manange different types of wounds.
As well, ever-more sophisticated wound products are entering the market. It is therefore essential that nurses have regular access to up-to-date, evidence-based information about best-practice wound care.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of this foundational wound care program is to teach nurses, who work in clinical practice, the best-practice care of a person who has a wound.
At the completion of this program it is expected that the participant will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the aetiology of common chronic wounds.
- Be able to take a systematic approach to correctly assess and manage a wound.
- Know the principles underlying the selection of dressings.
8.30am - Registration and Refreshments
9.00am - Anatomy and Physiology of a Wound
A look at the ‘big picture’ of wound development relating it to anatomy and physiology. This introductory session will enable you to revise your knowledge of wound development.
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What impact does systemic health have on wound healing?
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Why do some wounds heal slowly or not at all?
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How do underlying pathologies affect a wound?
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What problems arise when there is poor perfusion?
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What is meant by microbial imbalance?
10.00am - Assessment of Wounds
In this interesting session, we will look at some of the important aspects of wound assessment, for instance:
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How to assess whether a patient has an acute or chronic wound?
10:30am - Morning Tea and Coffee
11.00am - Factors Affecting Wound Healing
There are many factors that affect the ability of tissue to heal. These include inadequate nutrition and smoking. This session will look at the many factors that impact wound healing including the use of certain pharmaceutical preparations. It Includes:
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What impact do common factors, including medications, have on wound healing?
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Are there medications that can hasten healing?
12.00pm - Wound Managment and the Older Person
There are special considerations that need to be taken into account when caring for an older person who has a wound. These include consideration of the impact that the ageing process has on healing in general. In this session we will consider:
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The effects of ageing on the skin.
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Pressure ulcers, including risk assessment and prevention of skin damage.
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What about skin tears?
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Case studies and guidelines for appropriate wound care product choices.
1.00pm - Lunch Break and Networking
2.00pm - Pathophysiology of Leg Ulcers
Leg ulcers can originate for a range of reasons. Effective care and treatment can only occur if the aetiology of the leg ulcer is fully understood. In this session you will revise and consider:
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What is the difference between a venous and an arterial ulcer and why is this differentiation very important?
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How are these ulcers categorised?
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What is the current thinking regarding best-practice management?
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Special considerations for patients who have diabetes or peripheral vascular disease?
3.00pm - Afternoon Tea and Coffee
3.30pm - Nursing Documentation of Wound Care
Correct documentation of a wound is essential if measurable outcomes are to be achieved and appropriate care determined and carried out. Here you will learn ways to correctly document a wound in care plans.
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How to accurately describe wounds in your nursing notes?
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How to write best practice wound management care plans.
4.30pm - Close of Dat One of Seminar
9:00am - Start of Day Two
9.00am - Debridement of Necrotic Wounds
Debriding of tissue involves the medical removal of necrotic and infected tissue so as to allow healing of healthy tissue to occur. It is not always clear when debridement should occur. In this session we will consider:
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When should a wound be debrided?
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of the various forms of debridements, such as surgical, mechanical, chemical, biological?
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What are the risks to healing associated with debridement?
10.00am - Infection and Antiseptics
Infections can make a wound smelly and dramatically impair the healing process. Learn:
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Which common infections affect wounds?
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What role do antiseptics play in wound management?
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What is the role of antibiotics?
10.30am - Morning Tea and Coffee
11.00am - Introduction to Bandaging
A light session that will enable you to revise and enhance your knowledge of bandaging. In particular, you will learn a quick and simple way to apply those firm compression stockings without “breaking your back”. Includes:
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A demonstration of the art of bandaging.
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How to correctly apply compression stockings.
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Update your skills on complicated bandaging techniques.
11.45am - The Care of a Person with Difficult Acute Wounds
Some wounds are acute and need urgent appropriate care if they are not to rapidly deteriorate. This session will briefly look at a range of wounds that fall into this category and also consider the psychosocial implications associated with sudden tissue disruption and damage.
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How to manage skin care, burns, grazes and lacerations.
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Emotional care and support for patients.
12.30pm - Lunch Break and Time to Browse the Book Display
1.30pm - Selecting Wound Dressings
There is currently an ever-increasing array of wound care products available on the market. They can be very expensive but save money in the long term due to their efficiency in assisting wound healing. In this session, we will review the types of wound products available including when to use each type. We will address the following considerations:
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Which product is appropriate for which wound?
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Quick tips for selection procedures.
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How can you be sure you are using products in a cost-effective manner?
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How do you evaluate the effectiveness of a wound product and how frequently should such a review occur?
3.00pm - Close of Seminar and Evaluations
Geoff Sussman OAM JP FPS FACP FAIPM FAWMAAssociate Professor Geoff Sussman holds a positions in the Faculty of Medical and Health Science University of Auckland and the Faculty of Medicine, Monash University. Geoff is a pharmacist with many years experience as a senior director of pharmacy services in a major metropolitan teaching hospital. He is a fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, The Australian Institute of Pharmacy Management, The Australian College of Pharmacy Practice and is one of the inaugural fellows of the Australian Wound Management Association. As well, Geoff lectures on wound management to professionals involved in pharmacy, medicine, physiotherapy and nursing. He has over 100 publications including book chapters and articles on many topics and is an advisor to the Commonwealth Government. He was awarded an OAM in the Queens birthday Honours in 2006 for his work in wound care as a researcher, educator and clinician and in the sports of gymnastics and diving.
Presenting in: WA, QLD, NSW, VIC, SA,
Greg DuncanGreg is a pharmacist with an academic and practice background. He is currently completing his Doctorate of Public Health focussed on generating and using evidence. He teaches and practices in a multi-disciplinary context and is involved with pharmacy, medical and nursing education at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Greg has a special interest and expertise in evidence-based decision making in clinical settings. He developed and led programs improving the ways people use medicines both in Australia and also internationally where he has worked on WHO projects for implementation of new global strategies for medicines supply and use.
Presenting in: WA, QLD, NSW, VIC, SA,
