Onsite Certified Wound Care Market Specialist Course

Schedule

Four-Day Course

Curriculum

• Section 1    Principles of Practice
• Section 2    Skin and Underlying Structures
• Section 3    Wound Assessment
• Section 4    Wound Healing
• Section 5    Wound Bed Preparation
• Section 6    Nutrition
• Section 7    Topical Wound Management
• Section 8    Lower Extremity Ulcers
• Section 9    Pressure Ulcers
• Section 10  Acute Wounds
• Section 11  Other Wounds
• Section 12  Therapeutic Interventions & Modalities
• Section 13  Practice Development

Learning Objectives

• Discuss how standards of care, evidence-based practice and a multidisciplinary wound care team can affect clinical choices in wound management.
• Discuss the basic anatomy and physiology of the skin.
• Identify at least five parameters required for accurate wound assessment.
• Identify pressure ulcer stages according to NPUAP guidelines.
• Identify five factors which enhance or impede the wound healing process.
• Explain four types of basic principles of wound bed preparation.
• Identify three major components of a nutritional assessment for optimizing wound healing.
• Identify four different categories for topical wound management.
• Select treatment options based upon wound assessment, etiology and goal of wound care.
• Differentiate arterial, neuropathic and venous ulcers in terms of causative factors, pathophysiology, appearance and principles of management.
• Describe three factors involved in development of a pressure ulcer and interventions to prevent their occurrence.
• Describe at least five interventions that optimize acute surgical wound healing.
• Differentiate between wound etiologies and clinical manifestations of acute and traumatic wounds.
• Differentiate types of burns and principles of management.
• Select treatment options, and differentiate between wound etiologies and clinical manifestations of chronic, malignant and inflammatory wounds.
• Discuss three adjunctive treatment modalities that enhance wound healing.
• Discuss current multidisciplinary care approaches to wound care.
• Discuss components required for accurate wound documentation.