What You’ll Discover in Joan Junkin Skin & Wound Care
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Joan Junkin – Skin & Wound Care
Description:
All the necessary elements for a state-Of-The-Art care for your patients includes:
- Types and types of wounds
- Infection Control
- Healing methods
- Non-Healing Wounds
- Acute & Chronic Wounds
- Best Use Wound Products
We can improve our methods to heal and prevent wounds as budgets shrink. We will be discussing the tools necessary to navigate this minefield. Busy clinicians often don’t have time to view the latest guidelines and science, so this information will be presented in a way that makes it easy to incorporate into your practice. Joan Junkin While she is passionate about wound healing and skin health, she also understands that caregivers require endorphins just as much as patients. Expect humor, the best devices, interventions and modalities, as well as occasional snickers to make your day more enjoyable.
We’ll focus on methods proven to prevent or speed healing for the especially challenging diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, those related to lower extremity edema and vascular ulcers. Joan This perspective will help you to provide patient education and motivation. The seminar will place a lot of emphasis on infection control. This seminar will be your one-stop shop for infection control methods.-Shop for all the essentials you need to increase your wound prevention and treatment skills.
Change your practice if you want better wound healing. As we explore the evidence available, join us!
OUTLINE
Maintaining skin balance: This is what you should do ‘ounce of prevention’
- Review of epidermal and dermal differences in moisture, oil, bacteria and acid balance
- Skin The first line defense. How our skin protects us. And how you can help it succeed.
Prevention of trauma to the skin
- Skin Tears, abrasions and tape burns
- Simple ways to reduce friction between skin, and other surfaces
Incontinence and dermatitis
- Evidence for prevention and treatment-Follow international guidelines
- High intensity prevention is required for frequent incontinence.
- Protective and acidic skin cleanser
- Incontinence cloths reduce friction and have acidic cleansers.-in protectants
- Protective clothing/underpads
Accurately assess the buttocks – Pressure ulcers vs. other common buttock disorders
- Location, shape, color, depth
- A systematic assessment method is used in case studies
Fecal incontinence
- Steps to improve stool consistency
- There are pros and cons to collection devices
Fungal rashes
- You have options of when and what to do to treat fungus
- Natural ways to stop and control recurrent infections-Infection
Wound healing essentials
- The phases of healing are a complete-Thickness ulcer
- Wound assessment techniques
- The team approach to wound treatment includes patients and family members.
- To speed up healing, nutrition and endorphins are used.
Wound Make sure to prepare your bed in advance for the best possible healing
- Best cleansing takes more than just saline
- Use aggressive antiseptic cleaners
- Biofilm – Invisible shield against bacteria
- Use gentle, effective antiseptic skin cleansers
Debridement of non-Viable tissues are an important part in infection control
- Compare methods – every method has its pros and cons
- Discuss new soft pads for mechanical debridement (breaks Biofilm too).
Dressings can help maintain a healthy balance of moisture and bacteria in wounds
- There are many antiseptic dressings on the market. A new category is germ traps.
- Super-There are many absorbent options available – it’s not just foam or alginate anymore
- How to choose the right dressing for your wound based on its characteristics
- How to reduce costs by using products that are included in your purchasing contract
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Modalities-Physical science can be used in order to speed up healing
Operative wounds
- Keep incisions clean, dry and free from any infection.
- Negative pressure wound treatment bedside and single patient models
International guidelines for pressure ulcers (2014)
- How to intervene and identify risks
- Useful tools and prevention options
- Specialists in pressure mapping and cushion fitting
- Foam mattresses, air mattresses, chair cushions, foot protection boots – what options may be best for your facility’s situation/budget
Diabetic foot ulcers
- Depression, vitamin-D deficiency, and neuropathy: How limbs and lives are destroyed
- Take off-Loading methods
- Utilizing written contracts
Advanced therapies: skin grafts and hyperbarics. Autologous platelet concentrate.
Arterial ulcers
- Comparison of diagnostic methods
- Re-If possible, vascularize
- If you are unable to restore flow, keep it dry
Ulcers causing edema
- Tips for success in compression and elevation
- To prevent frequent stasis and infection, there are several ways to protect yourself from dermatitis and other infections.
- Management of fibrin slough without causing injury to the legs
Lymphedema, lipedema
- Assessment tips
- Lymphedema therapy
Take home toolkit: Useful resources and how to apply what you’ve learned today at your workplace tomorrow!
OBJECTIVES
- Discuss strategies to reduce skin cancer in high-risk areas.
- You can tell the difference between skin care products, and how to make the most of all options.
- Recognize and identify factors that may impede wound healing.
- Analyze foot and leg wound characteristics of: neuropathic and arterial wounds.
- Identify the characteristics of six types of wound dressings.
- Compare and contrast 5 types debridement.
- In this document, we outline the goals for wound care in palliative and hospice care settings.
- Explain evidence-Pressure ulcer prevention tools and practices.
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