Overview
Our Skin and Wound Management Course Shows You How to Change Lives
Perfect for All Levels of Nursing - Physicians - Physician Assistants - Physical Therapists - PTAs - Occupational Therapists - OTAs - Registered Dietitians
Our live online courses feature the crème de la crème of wound care instructors. These dynamic, highly energetic WCC® certified instructors design and deliver the curriculum for an engaging and interactive learning experience. They will prepare you for the wound care certification examination with real-world, practical skin and wound management training that can be used in your practice immediately to positively impact patient care.
Interactive Learning That Connects You to Your Peers
Get the structure and interactivity of our onsite in-person classes in a virtual classroom. The benefits of live virtual training are many!
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Start reviewing online course materials 29 days prior to the class start date.
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Gain all the advantages of a live classroom environment without the hassle or expense of travel.
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Benefit from real, practical training with study guide materials.
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Have your questions on the material answered in real time, so you’re learning stays on track.
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Prepare for the wound care certification exam from the comfort of your home.
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Get valuable feedback from the trainer and others in the group.
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Participate in Q&A sessions at the end of each lesson.
This live online course includes access to the Relias Live Platform, where you can:
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Review the online lessons to increase material retention.
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Test your knowledge with helpful practice questions.
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Use study-support tools like learning games and clever digital flashcards to quickly review concepts.
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Take a full-length, timed practice exam that simulate test day and gauge your readiness.
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Study on the go with a mobile-friendly format.
Certification Examination
Your clinical experience and the knowledge gained from the course will help prepare you for a wound care certification exam.
After registering for the course, if you plan to sit for a certification exam, you will select a credentialing board, complete their exam application, and pay their certification fees. The credentialing board determines your exam eligibility.
Contact NAWCO at 877-922-6292 for exam-related questions.
Leave Your Worries Behind with Test Prep Confidence
To support our learners and business partners, the Wound Care Education Institute® offers Test Prep Confidence. If you complete our Skin and Wound Management (SWM) certification course but do not pass the NAWCO® Wound Care Certified (WCC®) or Nutrition Wound Care Certified (NWCC) credentialing exam, we will provide 6 months of free access to the online Skin and Wound Management course for continued study. Simply send a copy of your exam results to [email protected] within 30 days of receiving them.
Test Prep Confidence can help make sure you accomplish your ultimate goal — wound care certification!
Interested in a Class Just for Your Organization? Can’t Find a Course Near You?
With a minimum class size of 15, WCEI® can bring a certification course right to your own facility, where you can include fellow healthcare providers and make the course a community event.
Certificates
Intended Audience
This course is intended for multiple professions including nurses, physicians, dietitians, physical therapists, and other healthcare professionals interested in wound care.
Credits
| Nurses: |
22.75 contact hours |
| Physical Therapists: |
22.75 contact hours |
| Dietitians: |
22.75 contact hours |
| Physicians: |
22.75 CE credits |
Optional Hours: Earn an additional 20.5 contact hours by completing the supplemental materials.
Physician Continuing Education Credit
Relias LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 22.75 AMA PRA category 1 CreditsTM.
Supplemental materials: Relias LLC designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 20.5 AMA PRA category 1 CreditsTM.
Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
To request a CME credit certificate after you have completed the online evaluation, please email [email protected] or call 877-462-9234.
Disclosure
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, 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.
Allen Zagoren, DO, MPA, FACOS, FACN, faculty for this educational event, is a consultant for Histologics, LLC. All the relevant financial relationships listed for Dr. Zagoren have been mitigated.
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.
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Tuition Cost
Tuition Rate
$2,097 Individual Student
Recertification Information
Certification Examination Fee: Fees are not included in the tuition rate. You will need to select a credentialing board, complete their exam application, and pay the exam fees.
Group Code: A group code identifies a course tuition rate for organizations who have an agreement with WCEI®. The code is given to individuals associated with the organization who are taking a course. The code, if applicable, must be used when registering for the course.
Included with Tuition
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Live online classroom training
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180-day access to the online course beginning 29 days before the 1st day of class (platform resource center)
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Contact hours upon completion (visit “Certificates” tab)
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WCEI® Skin and Wound Management Course workbook
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Exam prep tools including flashcards, end of lesson knowledge questions, and optional practice exams
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Pre-exam certification review
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Tools: pen and highlighter
Ongoing Education
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Nurses: Free 1-year Nurse.com Standard or Premium APRN subscription
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Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist or Dieticians: FREE 1-year subscription to Relias Academy
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Physician: access to free CMEs on FreeCME.com
Financial Options Cancellation Policy
Schedule & Content
Live Online Schedule
This is a 4-day live virtual class. Participants of the Skin and Wound Management Course must attend this course in its entirety and complete the evaluation form to receive
continuing education credits.
Exam Information
Exam is available at a PSI testing center. If testing with NAWCO®, you must call 877-922-6292 to make arrangements. Certification exams are offered by the credentialing boards at computer-based testing facilities Contact NAWCO® at 877.922.6292 with exam or recertification questions.
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.