Explore Wound Care Before You Commit to Certification
Not sure if wound care is right for you? We're partnering with Nurse.com to provide flexible CE bundles that let you build your wound care skills, learn about various types of wounds, and gain a foundational understanding of wound treatment methods.
Becoming wound care certified is a great way to demonstrate your advanced care skills and increase your earnings, but it can also feel like a big commitment. If you are not sure where to start, WCEI & Nurse.com may be able to help.
Our team has built curated wound care course bundles that are designed to give you a practical introduction to wound care. You’ll build real-world skills and explore key concepts such as managing pressure injuries, debridement, managing bioburden, and drug-related wounds. These courses will help you get a feel for what wound care is like without the financial and time commitment of a full certification program.
Wound Care Essentials 1 Course Bundle
Start here if you’re new to wound care
Build foundational skills in wound assessment, infection recognition, and treatment planning. This bundle helps you understand the “why” behind wound care decisions and gives you confidence in providing proper, effective wound care in everyday clinical scenarios.
This bundle provides 6+ hours of contact hours.
You’ll walk away with:
- A clear understanding of how to assess wounds
- Confidence identifying common wound types and infections
- Exposure to core tools and techniques used in practice
This bundle will specifically focus on the following topics:
Utilizing the PUSH Tool in Wound Care
Explains the components of the PUSH tool and how to use it to monitor wound healing progress.
Venous and Arterial Wounds
Indicates the best management strategies for arterial and venous ulcers.
Debridement
Displays the appropriate uses, benefits, and contraindications for each method of debridement.
Nutrition and wound care
Describes the appropriate nutrition therapies for wound healing.
Perioperative wound management
Differentiates surgical wound classifications, common incision types, and patient or procedural factors influencing wound healing.
Malignant wounds
Breaks down malignant wounds, how they develop, and the challenges associated with them.
Identifying and assessing wounds
Differentiates between the various types of wounds based on their unique characteristics.
Pressure injury assessment
Identifies the etiology and pathophysiology of PIs.
Wound Care Essentials 2 Course Bundle
Learn more complex wound care methodologies
Ready to go deeper? This bundle introduces more advanced wound types and treatment approaches, helping you build confidence managing complex and high-risk cases.
You’ll walk away with:
- Insight into advanced wound care scenarios
- Stronger clinical judgment for complex wound cases
- A better understanding of what advanced practice looks like
This bundle will specifically focus on the following topics:
Caring for arterial ulcers
Describes care interventions for individuals with arterial ulcers, including individuals with maintenance and palliation wound goals.
Advanced wound management 1
Discusses clinical indications and contraindications for advanced treatments used for wound management.
Advanced wound management 2
Describes advanced wound treatments and the contraindications for their use
Neuropathic ulcers
Describes neuropathic ulcers, how to assess them with evidence-based classification systems, and how to apply effective interventions for wound care and offloading.
Managing bioburden
Discusses the impact of bioburden and the various types of bacteria on non-healing wounds.
Drug-related wounds
Covers the essential skills to assess and manage wounds caused by prescription drugs, illicit substances, and injection use.
Wound bed prep and topicals for pressure injuries
Informs nurses in acute care settings about evidence-based practices for wound bed preparation and topical applications when managing pressure injuries.
Bridge to Certification
Thinking About Pursuing Wound Care Certification? Start Here!
Many WCEI students begin exactly where you are now: curious but unsure on whether you’re ready to take the leap to becoming wound care certified.
These bundles are a stepping stone to pursuing certification. They help you:
- Test your interest in wound care
- Build foundational wound care knowledge before committing to getting certified.
- Feel more confident in taking the next step towards certification prep.
When you're ready, WCEI certification programs take your wound care skills even further with comprehensive training designed to prepare you for real-world practice and certification exams. WCEI currently offers Skin & Wound Management, Diabetic Wound Management, Ostomy Management, and Certified Wound Care Marketing Specialist courses.
Why Start with a Bundle?
Lower commitment than certifications
Start learning without the cost or time of full certification or certification prep course.
Real clinical insight
Understand what wound care actually involves in day-to-day work. These courses are meant to prepare you for real-world applications of wound care across various care settings.
Build confidence in wound care
Feel prepared before making a bigger investment
Learn at your own pace
With these courses, you can take them at your own pace to fit your busy lifestyle.