Optimizing Wound Healing and Infection Prevention
Webinar Topic: Wound Care
Speaker: Melania Howell, DNP, AGCNS-BC, CWOCN, DAPWCA
Webinar Description:
Purpose/goal: This presentation aims to improve the healthcare team's understanding of patient-related factors contributing to wound chronicity and infection. Strategies will be discussed to efficiently manage chronic wounds, reduce infection risk, and improve patient outcomes.
Target Audience: Nurses, physical therapists, dietitians, and other healthcare professionals interested in wound care.
About the Speaker:
Disclosures
- Melania Howell, DNP, RN, AGCNS-BC, CWOCN, DAPWCA, faculty for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
- None of the planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
- This educational activity is supported by NetHealth.
Webinar Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Identify at least one risk factor for impaired wound healing
- Describe at least one risk factor for the development of a wound infection
- Review strategies for optimizing wound healing and infection prevention in wounds
Course Originally Released on: 9/29/2023
Date of Most Recent Review: 9/29/2023
Course Termination/Update Date: 9/30/2026
Accreditation Information
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In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. |
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As a Jointly Accredited organization, Relias LLC is accredited to offer dietetic continuing education by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). The CDR is an associate member of Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education.
Dietetics-related continuing education from Relias LLC, regardless of target profession, is acceptable, if the learning relates to the Competencies/Performance Indicators (PIs) on the learner's Step 1 Learning Plan.
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| Relias LLC is a licensed physical therapy continuing Education sponsor (#216.000290) by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Certificates must be retained by the licensee for a period of 5 years after course completion. Please check with your state for prior approval. |