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FREE WEBINAR
Topic: Virtual Wound and Ostomy Care - The Road Less Traveled
Speaker: Alicia Jenkins BS, RN, CWCN
Sponsored by Net-Health
Contact Hours: 1.0
Target Audience: Nurses and other healthcare professionals interested in wound care.
Description:
Access to a certified wound and ostomy specialist is becoming increasingly difficult with a recent estimate of one specialist to every 900 wound patients. In the post-acute setting, poor access to specialists results in inaccurate wound assessment and a lack of evidence-based treatment protocols. These problems not only extend healing times, increase the cost of care, and raise litigation risk, but they also negatively impact a patient’s quality of life. As a practice innovation, virtual management of wound and ostomy patients can significantly increase access to certified specialists and reduce costs regardless of the setting. For example, many small organizations are unable to bear the cost of hiring a full-time specialist to oversee wound and ostomy care. Larger organizations often have one or more specialists on staff, but would benefit from additional resources to relieve staff or help manage a growing patient population. Likewise, virtual wound management benefits patients in rural areas who must travel long distances to receive specialized care. In this presentation, we’ll discuss some of the challenges to implementing a virtual practice. Case studies depicting patient journeys will demonstrate the value of virtual access to certified wound and ostomy specialists and how this practice innovation can improve patient outcomes and quality of life while supporting organizational goals.
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
- Describe the impact lack of access to a certified wound and ostomy specialist has on both the patient and the provider organization.
- Understand the challenges of establishing a virtual practice.
- Discuss the potential benefits of virtual wound and ostomy management.
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FREE WEBINAR
Topic: An Integrated Approach to Wound Healing. Is There an "I" in TEAM?
Speaker: Dawn Baker RN, BSN, WCC
Sponsored by Net-Health
Contact Hours: 1.0
Target Audience: Nurses and other healthcare professionals interested in wound care.
Description:
- Problem: Building a team to manage wounds across all healthcare settings (Including: Primary Care, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Home Care, Hospitals, and Clinic settings).
- How it was solved: Providing evidence which supports the benefits to an organization having a wound management team (i.e. support patient outcomes, cost resource utilization, limb salvage). Building the team through networking, advocating, collaborating, and trust between the members.
- Discovered: Members on the team will drive the outcomes, advances in specialty care can make the difference, managing costs associated with prevention and management of wounds to promote cost resource utilization.
- Learned: Growth mindset, team diversity, improved patient outcomes/satisfaction, and reduced cost for organizations.
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
- The learner will be able to clearly identify what is meant by "I' in TEAM.
- The learner will be able to recognize different members of a wound management team and discuss the importance of the “I” in team.
- The learner will be able to show how a wound management team can benefit an organization. (i.e. reducing amputation (limb salvage), saving money, improving patient satisfaction and outcomes).
- The learner will be able to evaluate ways in which an organization, the members of a wound management team, the product procurement/usage/cost, and the outcomes are all related to one another.
- The learner will be able to describe a growth mindset.
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FREE WEBINAR
Topic: Rethinking Decades of Surgical Practice: Embracing Soft Convexity in the Operating Room.
Speaker: Rosemary Hill BSN, CWOCN, WOCC.
Sponsored by Convatec
Contact Hours: 1.0
Target Audience: Nurses and other healthcare professionals interested in wound care and ostomies.
Disclosure:
Rosemary Hill, BSN, CWOCN, WOCC(C), faculty for this educational event, has disclosed she was a consultant and on the speaker's bureau for Hollister in 2023. All relevant financial relationships listed for Ms. Hill have been mitigated.
Description:
Clinical Situation: Within 24-48 hours post-operatively, leakage of effluent frequently occurs under a flat ostomy barrier, which may come in contact with the midline incision. Peristomal skin irritation may also be associated with the leakage, which has contributed to pain and quality of life concerns in the early days of stoma creation. A recent convexity consensus publication concluded that “a convex ostomy pouching system can be safely used regardless of when the stoma was created. Actions Taken: A case series involving 7 patients (4 ileostomy, 2 urostomy, 1 colostomy) was undertaken at a large teaching hospital in Western Canada. Ages ranged from 55—88 years old with varying etiologies including Crohn’s, diverticular disease, rectal cancer, bladder cancer and pancreatic cancer. A decision was made to apply a ceramide infused soft convex skin barrier on all ostomy patients in the operating room. A slim barrier ring was added to the ostomy barrier to enhance the seal around the ostomy.
Results/outcomes: No leakage was noted in all seven patients from time of application to time of first barrier removal for ostomy teaching. All subjects exhibited intact peristomal skin during the first barrier removal which occurred between post-operative days 2-4. These cases suggest that the use of a ceramide infused skin barrier with soft convexity helped increase barrier wear time without stomal complications,
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
- Review outcomes of newly created stomas placed in soft convexity
- Discuss the approach for ALL ostomy surgery (ileostomy, colostomy & urostomy)
- Present the steps to include for changing a practice of several decades
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