* All Continuing Education activities provided by the HealthStream CNE Provider Unit.
Description Venous, Lymphedema and Arterial wounds are prevalent and require accurate assessment, differential diagnosis and careful medical and surgical management. The pain, restricted activity, frequent ...
Description This course discusses surgical site infections including risk factors for their development that are related to the patient, the surgery and the hospital environment. Best practices in pre, ...
Skin tears are a significant but underappreciated injury in the healthcare setting. Skin tears are of concern because these traumatic injuries can become chronic wounds if left untreated or managed inappropriately. ...
Description This course introduces the bedside clinician to modern guiding principles of wound dressing selection, complications that can arise when the wrong dressing is chosen and the potential cost ...
Description Individuals with diabetes are at increased risk for a number of serious and disabling complications. Among these is delayed wound healing. In recent years, researchers have made great progress ...
Description The management of wounds is complicated by not only the diversity of wounds but also the variety of wound care products now available to clinicians. In order to optimize patient outcomes and ...
Description Individuals with diabetes are at increased risk for a number of serious and disabling complications. Among these are foot problems. As many as 10-15% of individuals with diabetes will develop ...
Description In recent years, researchers have made great progress in understanding the complex processes that facilitate and control normal wound healing as well as the mediators that impair proper healing ...
Description As the body’s largest organ, skin is often unappreciated as the first line of defense against injury. Many factors both intrinsic and extrinsic to the patient threaten its integrity as a protective ...
Learning Objectives INTENDED AUDIENCE This continuing education activity is for nurses who would like to learn how to build an integrated, interdisciplinary skin and wound care team designed to ...
This course focuses on methods of turning and positioning that improve safety for both the patient and the caregiver. Threats to the patient from pressure, shear and friction, preventive intervention ...
Description It has been estimated that 2.5 million patients in the United States develop one or more pressure injuries and as many as 60,000 of these individuals die from the resulting complications each ...
Description Pressure injuries are a significant health threat. It has been estimated that 2.5 million patients in the United States develop one or more pressure injuries and as many as 60,000 of these ...
Description • This course focuses on the prevention of hospital-acquired pressure injury/ulcers (HAPU) in Medical-Surgical Units. Risk factors are discussed as are challenges such as immobility, medical ...
Description The discussion in this course is presented by 3 professionals with expertise in nursing, pressure injury and medical malpractice litigation. Professional malpractice from the nursing perspective, ...
Description This course focuses on the prevention of hospital-acquired pressure injury. Topics include: patient and ICU environmental risk factors and challenges to prevention such as immobility, bariatric ...
Pressure injury and threats to skin integrity occur throughout the hospital. In this course, clinical champions present safety risks in the ED, Perioperative, Critical Care, Pediatric and Medical-Surgical ...
Description Despite numerous initiatives addressing pressure injuries, pressure injuries still can and do occur at many hospitals, and at rates that continues to place a burden on the patient, hospital, ...
Description “Perspectives on Prevention: Overview” discusses threats to the patient’s skin integrity that occur in each department throughout their hospital stay. The hospital wound nurse rounds with the ...
Description This course focuses on pressure injuries that occur during the perioperative period. It reviews the incidence, pathophysiology, surgical patients at risk, most common locations, preventive ...
Description This course focuses on the prevention of hospital-acquired pressure injury in the neonatal and pediatric populations. Risk factors are discussed as well as challenges to prevention such as ...