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ON-DEMAND WEBINAR SERIES:
WOUND CARE IN ADVANCED ILLNESS

Speaker
Speaker: Diane Maydick, EdD, RN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN
Managing Partner
Care Improvement Strategies

Purpose: This webinar will provide nurses with information and strategies to implement evidence-based practices to prevent and/or manage wounds in advanced illness.

Objectives:

  1. Identify components required to optimize patient outcomes in regards to preventing or treating wounds in advanced illness
  2. Discuss strategies to prevent skin breakdown, further deterioration of existing wounds, wound and other symptom management, and those that optimize well-being
  3. List components of a wound assessment
  4. Identify local wound management techniques (dressing selection)
Why Do I Need to Know This?
Caring for patients with advanced illness is complex and requires a comprehensive interprofessional approach to optimize well-being for the patient and their caregivers. Advanced illness is often accompanied by increased risk of chronic debility, advancing disease, multi-system organ failure, the potential for skin breakdown and/or the presence of wounds. Nurses, who work as members of interprofessional teams, should be knowledgeable about evidence-based strategies to prevent and treat wounds in advanced illness. 

Target Audience: Nursing administrators and managers, nurses, and healthcare coaches

Criteria for Successful Completion:

  1. Attendance at entire session
  2. Submission of completed evaluation form
  3. Successful completion of a posttest (70% passing grade)

Continuing Education Credits: 1.0

Continuing Education Accreditation:

Nurses:  MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

 

Fees:
Individual: Free (includes CE certificate)

Release Date: June 25, 2018

Expiration Date: November 1, 2024

Disclosures:
Diane Maydick, EdD, RN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN, has no financial arrangements or affiliations with any commercial entities whose products, research or services may be discussed in these materials. Any discussion of investigational or unlabeled uses of a product will be identified.

No other Planning Committee Member has any disclosures.

Planning Committee Members
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Kerrianne P. Page, MD, HMDC
Joyce Palmieri, MS, RN, CHPN
Karen Richards, PhD, EdS

Funding Disclosure: No commercial funding has been accepted for the activity.

Location: Online at https://www.mjhspalliativeinstitute.org/e-learning/

The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is pleased to offer free interdisciplinary palliative care webinars, live and on demand, delivered by frontline experts, typically offering 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for Continuing Medical Education (CME), Nursing continuing education (CE), Social Work CE credits, Case Manager CCMC CE credits, and Music Therapy CE credits.

Our free interactive multimedia modules on Community-Based Palliative Care Program Development  and Caring for Holocaust Survivors With Sensitivity at End of Life  offer up to 9.75 CE credits.

Free pdf downloads now available: 15 palliative care professional factsheets and patient education handouts on 18 topics in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Arabic, French, and Russian.

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Caring for Holocaust Survivors With Sensitivity at the End of Life is the winner of the 2023 Brandon Hall Gold Award—Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Category)
Caring for Holocaust Survivors With Sensitivity at the End of Life is the winner of the 2023 Brandon Hall Gold Award—Best Learning Program for Unconscious Bias Awareness (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Category)