Wound Care: Key Skills for Home Care Nurses

Date: May 14, 2025

Time: 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PT

Location: Webinar

Registration: Online | Download Form

DESCRIPTION

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. 

FACULTY
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.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

This program has been designed to meet the continuing education requirements for the Minnesota Board of Nursing for 1.0 contact hour. It is the responsibility of the participant to ensure that this program meets the licensing and continuing education requirements of their state board and to retain the required documents in their personal file. Attendees must participate in the entire presentation for contact hours to be awarded – partial credit will not be available.  To apply for nursing contact hours, within one week following webinar participation, a completed sign-in sheet and evaluations from each individual must be returned to MHCA.  Certificates will then be issued by e-mail.

CONFIRMATION

The cost of this education is per person.

Prior to the webinar, a Zoom Webinar link will be e-mailed to you. You will need to click on this link to access the webinar, a dial-in number and an access code to listen in via telephone will also be provided. You will also be sent any pertinent handouts if available and evaluation link to the email address you provide.

WEBINAR RECORDING

This webinar will be recorded and available for 30 days following the webinar.

QUESTIONS?

Please contact Brandy Sweet at [email protected] with questions.

Oregon Association for Home Care PO Box 7245 Salem, OR 97303