Enhance your expertise in wound care with this comprehensive session designed specifically for home care nurses. Learn to effectively identify, assess, and manage common wounds, including pressure injuries and lower extremity ulcers caused by arterial insufficiency, venous insufficiency, peripheral neuropathy, and diabetes. This course will provide you with essential skills in wound assessment and best practices in wound management, ensuring the highest level of care for your patients.

Gain confidence in recognizing the signs and symptoms of complications or infections, and understand when a patient may require a higher level of care. Plus, access valuable resource guides on pressure injury assessment, lower extremity wound management, and topical treatment techniques that you can refer to in your daily practice. Equip yourself with the knowledge and tools to improve patient outcomes and deliver exceptional care in the home setting.

Objectives

• Identify the characteristics of pressure injuries, arterial ulcers, venous ulcers, peripheral neuropathic ulcers, and diabetic ulcers.
• Demonstrate how to assess and describe a wound.
• Discuss overall treatment best practices for pressure injuries and lower extremity wounds.
• Describe signs and symptoms of complications or infection.

Speaker

Jeri Ann Lundgren, RN, BSN, PHN, CWS, CWCN has been working in post-acute care since 1990, specializing in wound care nationally since 1994.  She is board certified as a CWS (Certified Wound Specialist) by the American Board of Wound Management and a CWCN (Certified Wound Care Nurse) by the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Society.  Her extensive background in wound management in long term care nationally includes survey management, litigation support, wound care consultation, program development, clinical expert for several state Quality Improvement Organizations and Departments of Health. Her background also includes 4 years as a Director of Nurses in a Long-Term Care facility.  Currently Ms. Lundgren is the President of Senior Providers Resource.