Description

DETAILS:

Course Name: Be A Wound Detective and A Dynamic Documenter
Presenter: Pamela Scarborough, PT, DPT, CDE, CWS, FACCWS
Price: $55.00
Number of Contact Hours/CCU’s:  6
Target Audience: PT’s. PTA’s, OT’s and OTA’s
Included: One Link to Access the Entire Set of Videos, Sign-in Sheet, Evaluation and Summary Sheet

Topics:

Pressure Ulcer Prevention, Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment, Pressure Ulcer Prevention Interventions, Documenting Pressure Ulcer Prevention, Most Common Wound Etiologies: Pressure Ulcers, Peripheral Arterial Disease, Venous Insufficiency, Diabetic Neuropathic Foot Ulcers, Lymphedema, Documenting wound etiologies, Documentation that meets Federal Mandates and Best Practice Recommendations, The Patient Assessment, The Wound Assessment, Treatment Interventions, Compare Wound Documentation Recommendation with Your Form, Hands-on skills lab for patient and wound assessment, Identification of pressure ulcer stages using simulated wounds on model, Plan of care related to case study

Presenter: Pamela Scarborough, PT, DPT, CDE, CWS, FACCWS

Pamela is currently the Director of Public Relations and Education for American Medical Technologies, headquartered in Irvine, California. Her clinical career spans over 30 years having practiced a variety of setting including acute, out-patient, home health and long-term care.   Her clinical experience has included tradtional physial therapy, orthopetics and sports medicine, cardiac rehabilitation, and wound care. She considers herself a physical therapist generalist with specialtiy interests in diabetes and wounds.Pamela has published book chapters, articles, and monographs on the topics of diabetes and wound care, in addition to frequently being invited to present at conferences and educational activities around the country on these and related subjects. She holds an active licensed as a physical therapist in the state of Texas and is certified by two nationally accredited boards, the National Certification Board of Diabetes Educators, where she has held the credential of Certified Diabetes Educator for the past 20 years…and the American Academy of Wound Management where she has held the Certified Wound Specialist credential since the year 2000. She is on the board of directors for the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care and has served on numerous symposium planning panels and association boards over her extensive career.

Course Description:

This one-day course will provide current recommendations for pressure ulcer prevention, wound etiology recognition, and wound treatment, with an emphasis on assessment and documentation that meets federal mandates per F314/F309, mandated reporting on the MDS 3.0, M-Section, and guidelines from the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP).

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion the participant will be able to demonstrate and have an understanding of:

 Identify components of pressure ulcer prevention including current documentation recommendations that meet federal mandates, national guidelines & clinical needs.
Identify most common wound etiologies found in LTC.
Discuss components of the patient assessment & wound treatment interventions, including appropriate
documentation considerations for the different etiologies
Compare your facility’s current wound documentation practices with recommendations that address current wound documentations from F314, MDS-M-Section and NPUAP guidelines