Name: Wound Management: A Practical Guide Seminar
Start: 27 Oct 2021
End: 29 Oct 2021
Location: Voco Gold Coast

Why Attend

Ausmed's Wound Management Seminar is an essential and very popular course for healthcare professionals, including nurses, general practitioners, podiatrists, pharmacists, and occupational therapists. It is based on the latest evidence for effective wound management. You will learn:

A strong focus on the foundation principles of wound management
How to incorporate a patient-centred approach to care
How to assess and manage chronic and acute wounds
Dressing selection, compression therapy, and bandaging

Ausmed has a long-standing track record of educating thousands of nurses and other health practitioners across Australia on this topic. Our experienced presenters are popular and extremely adept educators who are consistently very highly evaluated. Don’t miss out – book now!

Program

8:30am - Registration and Refreshments

9:00am

Wound Management – The Big Picture

This introductory session looks at modern wound management – the challenges of wounds, trends in care, best-practice resources and how this program will address these issues. Topics include:

What is the burden of chronic wounds in today’s society?
What influences wound management in everyday practice?
Why do best-practice resources significantly help in planning management?
How will these two days be structured to enhance your knowledge of wound management?

9:45am

An Overview of Wounds and Their Healing

Refresh your knowledge on the process of wound healing and discover the latest information about the factors that influence outcomes. Topics include:

What is a wound?
How do wounds heal?
What delays or prevents healing?

10:30am - Morning Tea and Coffee

11:00am

Principles of Wound Management I: Wound Assessment

Competent assessment of a person with a wound is imperative for correct management. Assessment involves a range of considerations including the wound, the person, and their environment. Topics include:

What factors are important when assessing a wound?
How do you document your assessment?
What role do investigations play?
How do you determine the wound diagnosis?

11:45am

Principles of Wound Management II: Interventions

Following assessment, goals of care that consider the wound, the person and their environment are identified. Topics include:

What interventions assist you to meet the identified goals of care?
What is the role of wound cleansing and debridement?
How do you prevent and manage inflammation and infection?

12:30pm - Lunch Break and Networking

1:30pm

Principles of Wound Management III: Evaluating Progress

It is essential to monitor wound progress to determine if goals of care are being met. Topics include:

Strategies for evaluating wound progress
Addressing the challenges in meeting goals of care
Identifying alternative pathways to assist when there are difficulties in meeting goals of care

2:15pm - Afternoon Tea and Coffee

2:45pm

Principles of Wound Management IV & V: Dressings

These two sessions will take a function based approach to selecting an appropriate dressing. Topics covered include:

How wound dressings are classified according to function
Considerations in dressing selection
When is it time to modify the dressing regimen?
How to choose a basic range of products for your workplace

4:15pm - Close of Day One of Seminar

9:00am - Commencement of Day Two

9:00am

Venous and Arterial Leg Ulcers

Leg ulcers are very common, particularly in the older population. Many clinicians lack the confidence to assess and manage these wounds.This session will clarify how to manage leg ulcers according to the evidence for best outcomes. Topics include:

What causes leg ulcers?
What is the difference between a venous and an arterial ulcer and why is this differentiation very important?
How do mixed ulcers manifest?
What is the current best practice for leg ulcer management?

9:45am

Compression Therapy

Compression therapy is the cornerstone of venous leg ulcer management; however, it is often underutilized and poorly implemented. This session will describe the underlying principles of compression therapy and provide guidance for venous ulcer management. Topics Include:

What types of compression are available?
What level of compression is required?
What risks are associated with this therapy?

10:30am - Morning Tea and Coffee

11:00am

Pressure Injury

Despite there being national and international standards relating to the prevention of pressure injury, they remain highly prevalent. This session will provide the relevant knowledge and identify resources to assist practitioners to meet these standards. Topics include:

What strategies can be used to prevent pressure injury?
How do I know it's a pressure injury – including staging?

11:45am

High Risk Feet

Foot wounds as a result of complications associated with diabetes and other pathologies are so common as to be almost epidemic. This session focuses on the effects that neuropathies and peripheral arterial disease have and why these cause so many problems once a wound develops. Topics include:

How do foot pathologies impact on the development of a wound and wound healing?
What are the wound management implications for people with foot wounds?
What is the role of interprofessional management?

12:30pm - Lunch Break and Networking

1:30pm

Acute Wounds

This session will look briefly at a range of acute wounds. Topics include:

General principles of acute wound management
Minor burns
Skin tears
Surgical wound management

2:15pm

Non Healing Wounds

Not all wounds will heal. This may be for patient, wound or environment factors. This may be confronting for practitioners. Topics include:

Setting realistic outcomes
An overview of common factors that might result in a non-healing wound
Managing a wound where healing is not the goal

3:00pm - Afternoon Tea and Coffee

3:30pm

Putting It All Together

Having followed a case through for these two days, exploring systems and clinical interventions this session will:

Provide the opportunity to consolidate your seminar learning into practice
Identify strategies for sharing knowledge with colleagues
Connect you with resources

4:15pm - Close of Seminar and Evaluations

Presenters

Sue Templeton

Sue works as a community-based nurse practitioner: wound management in Adelaide. Sue has worked in wound management since 1987 and has extensive clinical experience managing persons with a variety of acute and chronic wounds. Sue provides clinical consultancy services, develops and delivers wound management education and is involved in the development of wound management tools, policies and procedures. Sue has been actively involved in the wound management professional body at a national and local level for a number of years. Sue has undertaken clinical research and published and presented locally, nationally and internationally. Sue has been involved in the development of several national and international guidelines and is active on several state and national committees. Sue is passionate about improving the life of persons with a wound and empowering others to deliver best practice in wound management.

Damian Williams

Damian Williams is a registered nurse and endorsed nurse practitioner who has been directly involved in delivering advanced wound management services for over 20 years. His current position is clinical nurse consultant for wound management in a large Brisbane Metropolitan Hospital. He is actively involved in gaining knowledge and promoting best-practice wound management. Damian holds postgraduate qualifications in wound management and a master of nurse practitioner. He conducts regular wound management education and has presented at conferences locally, nationally, and internationally. Damian also holds a passion for building evidence in the field of wound management and is currently involved as a primary or associate investigator on several research projects. Damian has held committee positions on both the Australian Wound Management Association (AWMA) National Committee (now Wounds Australia) and Queensland Committee. He is a past president of the Queensland Branch and a current committee member of Wounds Australia – Queensland.

Need for Program

Nearly half a million Australians are affected by wounds in some way. It is predicted that the prevalence and cost of wound care will rise over the next few years because of the ageing population. Comprehensive assessment guides treatment and knowledge of the foundation principles of wound care is essential. Additionally, new wound dressing products are becoming increasingly sophisticated. If best patient outcomes are to be achieved, applying evidenced wound management is essential.

Purpose of Program

The purpose of this program is to provide health professionals with up-to-date information, tools and strategies for best-practice wound management.

Your learning outcomes

Build an understanding of the physiology and pathophysiology of wounds with factors that impact on healing
Use a systematic approach for assessing a patient and their wound to guide appropriate care
Describe an appropriate management plan, including dressings, taking into account patient considerations and the pathophysiology of the wound
Gain confidence in the management of a person with a wound and advocate for best-practice care