This webinar series reviews best practices for wound prevention and wound care management. Emphasis will be on avoiding common areas where facilities go wrong related to assessment, care planning, treatment, documentation and coding, and effective communication protocols related to skin and wound care management.
What to expect: 1. Grow wound assessment, treatment and documentation skills. 2. Meet CMS wound-related requirements for effective MDS coding, CAA and care planning. 3. Avoid common pitfalls in wound care programs that contribute to poor clinical outcomes, survey deficiencies and potential litigation.
October 30 - Skin/Wound Assessment Fundamentals - Enhance your grasp of skin and wound assessment basics in this session which is ideal for new or seasoned staff. Improve skills in accurately assessing and documenting the status of wounds and gain insight into common assessment pitfalls that can result in survey deficiencies and potential litigation.
November 6 - Wound MDS Coding & CAA Documentation Essentials - Gain insight into the MDS coding requirements for wounds, as well as the vital components for wound-related CAA documentation. Common wound-related coding errors will be explored with tips for how to avoid them.
November 13 - Key Elements of Care Planning for Wound Care - Understand and implement the key elements of wound-related care planning. Tips and strategies will be discussed on effectively addressing resident wounds without excess duplication of interventions, and best practices for keeping wound care plans current and up-to-date as the wound heals.
November 20 - Wound Care Management Best Practices - Develop a comprehensive understanding of wound care treatment/management best practices. Treatment protocols and techniques will be discussed along with guidelines for when to make changes to the treatment modality in place.
December 4 - Wound Care Documentation & Notification Essentials - Comply with requirements for notification of the MD and resident representative related to the onset and status of resident wounds, changes in wound status or treatment(s). Document notifications comprehensively and understand common pitfalls associated with wound notification/documentation will also be explored.
December 11 - Wound Prevention and QAPI Necessities - Participants will gain insight into best practices for wound prevention and how to incorporate critical wound care program information into the facility QAPI program.
Presented by: Janine Lehman, RN, RAC-CT, CLNC, Director of Legal Nurse
THIS WEBINAR SERIES DOES NOT OFFER WOUND CERTIFICATION
Webinar series conducted from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. every Wednesday for 6 weeks, October 30 through December 11. NO WEBINAR on November 27. NO NAB CEUs available for this webinar series.
$222.50 member
$322.50 non-member
$30.00 cancellation fee
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