Course Objectives
- Discuss the history of wound care, standards of care, scope of practice and role implementation
- Describe standards of care and role of evidence based practice
- Review structures of the integumentary system
- Classify types of primary skin lesions
- Describe common factors contributing to primary alteration in integrity
- Discuss Pressure Injury and intervention following NPUAP guidelines
- Identify phases of wound healing and factors affecting wound healing
- Describe skin tears and types of skin tears and formulate plan for prevention
- Discuss the classification system to assess wounds and relate the parameters to include in wound assessment
- Plan and create comprehensive wound care plan a patient with wounds
- Distinguish the characteristics of Lower Extremity Ulcers
- Compare and contrast types of Lower Extremity Ulcers including arterial, venous, diabetic, and neuropathic foot ulcers and
- prepare a care plan
- Categorize wound care products and select appropriate dressings based on the assessment
- Distinguish between contamination, colonization, critical colonization and infection
- Discuss types of debridement and identify debridement options and indications and contraindications for debridements and
- legal practices acts and practices
- Discuss types of Adjuvant Therapy for wound management and identify wounds most appropriate for adjuvant therapy

Live, Hands on Wound Care Training
compression
negative pressure therapy
wound measuring
simple bandaging
