Overview
The WCEI® Skin and Wound Management Recertification Course
Keeps Your Clinical Skills Sharp
Earn WCC recertification onsite or online. No NAWCO® credentialing examination, no stress, no problem!
Maintain your competitive edge as a leader in wound care by taking the Skin and Wound Management course. Your certification offers more than just the possibility for professional advancement. It’s an investment in your career and the lives of your patients.
Over time, new information and advances in the wound care field lead to improved standards of care and best practices. The best way to maintain strong clinical results is by keeping your knowledge current.
Recertification by Training
If your credential is through NAWCO® or ABWM you do not have to sit for the wound care certification exam if you take the onsite or online WCEI® Recertification Skin and Wound Management Course.
After registering for the course, you will select a credentialing board, complete their recertification application, and pay their recertification fees. The credentialing board determines your recertification eligibility.
Contact NAWCO at 877-922-6292 for exam-related questions.
Certificates
Intended Audience
This course is intended for multiple professions including nurses, dietitians, physical therapists, and other healthcare professionals interested in wound care.
Continuing Education Information
Continuing education and accreditation information may be found on the certificate tab for the individual courses.
Schedule & Content
Recertification Schedule
Onsite
Four-day Course
Days 1 - 4 |
9:00AM - 4:30PM |
Classroom Training |
Day 5 |
8:00AM - 11:00AM |
For your convenience, the National Alliance of
Wound Care and Ostomy® administers the
certification examination at most course locations
the day after the course concludes.
Contact NAWCO at 877-922-6292 for
exam-related questions. |
Online Course
Once the initial online module is started, you have 180 days to complete all thirteen modules at your pace.
Curriculum/Online Modules
- 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 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.