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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has identified pressure ulcers as one of the top 10 areas of deficiencies when caring for patients. Preventing Infections in Pressure Ulcers and Wound-Care Management is a vital online course that will teach you to manage your patients' risk for pressure ulcers and how to properly care for them when they do occur.

Learners will walk away knowing how to:

• Assess, prevent, and treat pressure ulcers
• Identify infections in pressure ulcers
• Respond to infected pressure ulcers

With Preventing Infections in Pressure Ulcers and Wound-Care Management you'll get the tools you need to help your hospital reduce the incidence of pressure ulcers and prevent infections when they do occur.

Learning objectives:

• Discuss the reasons for the prevalence of pressure ulcers in healthcare settings
• Define a pressure ulcer and the body's response to it
• Explain the methods of preventing pressure ulcers
• Describe methods of assessing pressure ulcer wounds
• Discuss how to properly assess infected pressure ulcers
• Illustrate how to treat the pressure ulcer wound
• Describe methods of monitoring wound healing

Intended audience:

• Nursing home administrators and directors
• Directors of nursing
• Assistant directors of nursing
• Quality directors
• Staff educators/staff trainers
• Staff nurses
• MDS coordinators
• Wound care teams

Table of contents:

• Prevalence of pressure ulcers in the healthcare setting
• Definition of a pressure ulcer
• Pressure ulcer prevention
• Wound assessment
• Monitoring wound healing
• Infection assessment
• Treating the wound
• Final exam

About the faculty:
Karen S. Clay, RN, BSN, CWCN, is president of Kare N' Consulting, a long-term care consulting company in Brimfield, MA. She specializes in wound management, risk management, and clinical-program development. An active educator, Clay regularly conducts seminars on wound management and works with facilities as part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Nursing Home Quality Initiative on pressure ulcer prevention and management. 

Clay's 20-plus years of experience in healthcare management includes serving as a director of nurses, corporate clinical consultant, and founding member of a company specializing in long-term care medical services.

She is author of HCPro, Inc., publications Long-Term Care Risk Management: Pressure Ulcers: A prevention, assessment, and treatment training guide and The Long-Term Care Survey Preparation Handbook. Her work regularly includes presurvey assessments of long-term care facilities.

Accreditation statement:
This educational activity for 1 nursing contact hour is provided by HCPro, Inc. HCPro, Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Disclosure statement:
The faculty has signed a vested interest form declaring no commercial/financial stake in this activity. < Benefits of Online Learning at www.hcprofessor.com include:

• Tough questions (and answers) about confusing regulatory standards
• Steps on how to solve pressing nursing needs
• Exam
• Instant test scores
• Case studies
• Test until success: The option of taking the exam as often as you need during password access
• Certificate of completion
• Student course history and documentation of training
• Discussion groups
• Note-taking and bookmark options
• Internet resources on guidelines and regulations
• Reference materials and recommendations on how to progress to the next step in your courses

Computer Requirements

• PC users must use Internet Explorer 4.0 or above
• MAC users must use Netscape Navigator 4.0 or above (the use of Internet Explorer may cause technical difficulties)
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• Try our FREE DEMONSTRATION for both MAC and PC users

For full course descriptions, outlines, and special combination deals, go to www.hcprofessor.com.

Online learners will get 30-day access to the course materials and will be e-mailed their user name and password within 24 to 48 hours after payment has been received.

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