Designed as full day or half day events, the seminars are presented in an exciting, motivating and energizing format that makes the perfect learning environment.

Choose from Wound Assessment or Topical Wound Management topics.  Seminar dates and locations will be added throughout the year.

Send all staff members that work with wounds–LPNs, RNs, NPs, PTs, physicians, nurse managers, treatment nurses, wound care team members, clinic directors, MDS coordinators, consultants and any clinicians interested in wound care.

For a complete schedule visit our website and click on the One Day tab.  Visit us at www.wcei.net

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Description:
Combination of 2 or more physically distinct products manufactured as a single dressing that provides multiple functions :  a bacterial barrier, absorbency, a degree of

Composite Dressing

non-adherence to the wound bed and self adhesiveness

When to Use:
Primary or secondary dressing for partial or full thickness wounds, wounds with minimal to heavy exudate, granulating or necrotic wounds

Advantages:

Disadvantages:
Requires border of intact skin on which to  adhere the dressing

Examples:                   ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­
Covaderm, Alldress, Telpha Island, Stratasorb, Tegaderm Pad, OpSite Post-Op

Reminders:

• cannot cut dressings – use appropriate size
• frequency of change varies – follow manufacturer’s instructions
• do  not stretch dressing during application

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Discover the secrets of producing logical, clearly written, and easy to-follow procedures for operating your wound care programs safely and efficiently to produce quality results. This course will teach you how to analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate procedures and training needs most effectively at your care setting.

Attending the Wild on Wounds National Conference can earn you up to 23 Contact Hours!!!!!!

For more information about the Wound Care Education Institute, please visit http://www.wcei.net.

Click Here To Register for the Wild on Wounds National Conference

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• In the United States, the number of Medicare age individuals afflicted with lymphedema, or at risk of developing it, exceeds 6.8 million.
• The incidence of lymphedema as a consequence of cancer therapy ranges from 10- 50% and increases with time.

Glendale Wisconsin- June 30, 2011-The National Alliance of Wound Care® (NAWC®) announced today, the introduction of its newest certification in the specialty of Lymphedema Lower Extremity Management (LLE™).

The LLE is an advanced credential that demonstrates a candidate’s proficiency and mastery of essential knowledge and skills of lower extremity lymphedema and associated wound management.

“We are very excited to offer this new certification. The LLE validates a wound care professional’s expertise in lymphedema lower extremity management, while enhancing their marketability. This advanced certification will assure employers they are hiring a leader with tested competency in lower extremity lymphedema,” said Debbie Hecker, Executive Director of the National Alliance of Wound Care.

The LLE is the third certification offered by the NAWC and the only wound care certification board to offer an advanced credential in Lower Extremity Lymphedema. Prerequisite education for LLE certification will be offered by Lymphedema and Wound Care Education, LLC (LWCE).

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WCEI offers wound care courses throughout the USA year long.  Below you will find the list of scheduled dates and locations for our June 2011 wound care classes. In addition, for groups or organizations that want to host their own wound care course, we will come to you at the location of your choice.
June 2011 Courses:

• Kansas City, MO Thursday, June 02, 2011 – Sunday, June 05, 2011
• Lombard, IL - Thursday, June 02, 2011 – Sunday, June 05, 2011
• Oklahoma City, OK- Thursday, June 02, 2011 – Sunday, June 05, 2011
• Annapolis, MD- Monday, June 06, 2011 – Friday, June 10, 2011
• Cincinnati, OH- Monday, June 06, 2011 – Friday, June 10, 2011
• New Orleans, LA- Monday, June 13, 2011 – Friday, June 17, 2011
• Palm Springs, CA- Monday, June 13, 2011 – Friday, June 17, 2011
• East Elmhurst, NY- Thursday, June 16, 2011 – Sunday, June 19, 2011
• Houston, TX- Monday, June 20, 2011 – Friday, June 24, 2011
• Sacramento, CA- Thursday, June 23, 2011 – Sunday, June 26, 2011
• Long Island, NY- Monday, June 27, 2011 – Friday, July 01, 2011
• San Diego, CA- Monday, June 27, 2011 – Friday, July 01, 2011

For more details and Registration Click Here

Course Info

Our Skin and Wound Management Course is designed to provide participants with the best practices in wound care, the science behind healing wounds, and the most current standards of practice.  At the end of the course, for those that pursue wound certification the National Alliance of Wound Care® provides the  WCC® exam.  Click here to view our detailed course curriculum.

Become Wound Care Certified with WCEI’s Wound Care Course
Or just simply take the course for your own knowledge and benefit.  Our wound certification course is an informative and empowering week for anyone interested in learning more about healing wounds.

Individuals who are not eligible for wound care certification may also attend the course. Wound-related product sales representatives or other non-clinicians can gain valuable insight into the business and science of wound care, thus giving them an edge over their competition.

Wound Care Certification
WCEI’s Skin and Wound Management Course meets the pre-requisite requirement for the National Alliance of Wound Care® (NAWC®) certification exam. Eligible participants are given the option to take the wound examination onsite.  Please click here to view the requirements for wound care certification.

The Wound Care Certification Exam

The NAWC® Wound Care Certification Examination is administered at the conclusion of the course for those who meet the eligibility requirements to sit for the certification exam. The test is administered by NAWC – the National Alliance of Wound Care.

The Advantages of Wound Care Certification

• Earning a wound specialist certification offers many advantages and benefits including:
• Increased consumer/patient confidence
• Feelings of pride, self-satisfaction and confidence for the certified wound specialist
• Enhanced career opportunities and accelerated career advancement including higher pay levels - CLICK HERE to view pay scale for WCC.
• Professional acknowledgement, recognition, and respect

Course Atmosphere
The Skin and Wound Management Course is taught in a fun, relaxed and professional environment.  The classes are upbeat, positive, high energy, and designed specifically for health care professionals.  Classes are interactive to maintain participants’ energy and interest levels; and all of the instructors are dynamic presenters who use lots of visuals, a variety of learning styles, interesting examples and humor as part of their instruction styles.  We promise you won’t be bored.

Here’s what one satisfied participant had to say about WCEI’s wound care certification program:

Course Details – Please click here for course content details or click here for class dates and locations.  If you’re interested in hosting a class, please visit our Host a Class page.

We look forward to seeing you at one of our classes soon.

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The New Jersey Wound Care Certification Initiative was developed with the intent of significantly reducing the incidence and severity of pressure ulcers among patients and residents in New Jersey’s hospitals (including IRFs and LTCHs), nursing homes, assisted living facilities, as well as clients of New Jersey’s home health agencies.  The goal of this program is to increase specialized wound care education, skills and certification of nursing staff and to dramatically expand the number of New Jersey nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living facilities and home health agencies that utilize wound care certified professionals in prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers.
http://www.njha.com/

A week-long wound care training course with wound care certification examination will be offered at locations in the state of New Jersey

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD APPLICATION

The course will be given by the Wound Care Education Institute and Wound Care Certification exam and credentials will be offered by the National Alliance of Wound Care®.

Qualified New Jersey nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living facilities and home health agencies will be given the opportunity to send participants.

The initiative is being sponsored by the National Alliance of Wound Care® (NAWC®) in cooperation with the New Jersey Hospital Association’s Institute for Quality & Patient Safety.

Who can apply?
Licensed New Jersey nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living facilities and home health agencies may submit an application for employees who must meet the following criteria:

• Applicant is a current employee of the facility submitting the application.
• The applicant holds an active, unrestricted New Jersey license as Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse.
• It can be documented that wound care has been a component of the applicant’s job duties for at least 2 years out of the last 5 years.

Only qualified individuals will be allowed to participate in the program.
Qualified applicants who are accepted for participation will be required to attend all four days of the training class, no absences permitted.  Organizations will be responsible for travel and lodging of chosen participants, if necessary.

Instructions

1. Complete the course application.
2. Submit application along with $2597.00 course fee to Wound Care Education Institute. Make checks payable to “Wound Care Education Institute” or complete credit card section on the application.
3. Applicants will receive notification of course acceptance within 2 business days of receiving application. Notifications will be made by phone and/or email.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD APPLICATION

The fund is derived from federal enforcement and is allocated to New Jersey from the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  The purpose of the fund is to improve quality in nursing homes.

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The Wound Care Education Institute will be providing Wound Care Certification Courses in the following locations for the month of October 2010

Our Skin and Wound Management Course is designed to provide participants with the best practices in wound care, the science behind healing wounds, and the most current standards of practice.  At the end of the course, for those that pursue wound certification the National Alliance of Wound Care® provides the  WCC® exam.  Click here to view our detailed course curriculum.

Become Wound Care Certified with WCEI’s Wound Care Course
Or just simply take the course for your own knowledge and benefit.  Our wound certification course is an informative and empowering week for anyone interested in learning more about healing wounds.

Individuals who are not eligible for wound care certification may also attend the course. Wound-related product sales representatives or other non-clinicians can gain valuable insight into the business and science of wound care, thus giving them an edge over their competition.

Wound Care Certification
WCEI’s Skin and Wound Management Course meets the pre-requisite requirement for the National Alliance of Wound Care® (NAWC®) certification exam. Eligible participants are given the option to take the wound examination onsite.  Please click here to view the requirements for wound care certification.

The Wound Care Certification Exam
The NAWC® Wound Care Certification Examination is administered at the conclusion of the course for those who meet the eligibility requirements to sit for the certification exam. The test is administered by NAWC – the National Alliance of Wound Care.

The Advantages of Wound Care Certification

Earning a wound specialist certification offers many advantages and benefits including:

• Increased consumer/patient confidence
• Feelings of pride, self-satisfaction and confidence for the certified wound specialist
• Enhanced career opportunities and accelerated career advancement including higher pay levels
• Professional acknowledgement, recognition, and respect

Course Atmosphere
The Skin and Wound Management Course is taught in a fun, relaxed and professional environment.  The classes are upbeat, positive, high energy, and designed specifically for health care professionals.  Classes are interactive to maintain participants’ energy and interest levels; and all of the instructors are dynamic presenters who use lots of visuals, a variety of learning styles, interesting examples and humor as part of their instruction styles.  We promise you won’t be bored.

Here’s what one satisfied participant had to say about WCEI’s wound care certification program:

Course Content

WCEI’s Skin and Wound Management Course is a  four or five-day wound care training seminar consisting of classroom training.

For 5-Day Class Sessions

Days 1-4
Concentrated all-day wound care training sessions
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Day 5
NAWC® Wound Care Certification Examination 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Administered by National Alliance of Wound Care®) following WCEI’s wound care training.

4-Day Class sessions vary and may be customized to meet group needs.

Wound Care Training Course — Curriculum

Anatomy & Physiology
Anatomy/Physiology of Skin
Physiological Process of Wound Healing

Wounds
Wound Assessment – Etiology – Characteristics
Wound Management Interventions
Wound Bed Preparation
Arterial, Vascular, and Diabetic Ulcers
Special Wound Care Needs
Adjunctive Treatment Modalities
Nutritional Management
Bacterial Burden
Continuity of Care

Professional/Legal
Evidence-based Practice Guidelines
Change, Conflict Management, Communication
Patient/Family Education
National Health Care Issues
Legal/Ethical Aspects, Quality of Care Issues
Cost Management/Budgeting
Professional Responsibilities
Resource Utilization
Wound Care Team
Coordination of Services – Multidisciplinary Approach

Our wound care training is practical, valuable, interesting, fun, high-energy and interactive.  Taught by top-notch, up-beat, high-energy instructors, the classes are specifically designed to hold the interest and maintain the energy level of health care professionals used to being active in their jobs.

Here’s what one WCEI wound care training participant had to say about our course:

To Register for our Skin and Wound Management Course upcoming dates and locations Click HERE

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This pathway is designed for health care professionals who have a strong passion for wound care but don’t have the necessary experience. Either you have worked in a different area of practice, you are a new graduate, or maybe you are retired and want to get back into the field of healing. This pathway is for you!

The National Alliance of Wound Care Preceptor Pathway is a WCC® certification option that includes one week of classroom and 120 hours working with an approved WCC preceptor in the clinical setting.

It is recommended that you have your preceptor secured prior to attending the course. All clinical hours must be completed within one year of attending the wound management course.

Requirements for the NAWC® “WCC®” Certification Preceptor Pathway

1. You must be an active unrestricted license as a registered nurse, licensed practical/vocational nurse, nurse practitioner, physical therapist, physical therapist assistant, occupational therapist, physician or physician’s assistant.
2. Register and attend one of WCEI Skin and Wound Management Training Courses (Click here to view course locations near you).
3. After the completion of the WCEI’s Course you must then complete a minimum of 120 hours of hands on clinical training with an NAWC® approved clinical preceptor.

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The New Jersey Wound Care Certification Initiative was developed with the intent of significantly reducing the incidence and severity of pressure ulcers among patients and residents in New Jersey’s hospitals (including IRFs and LTCHs), nursing homes, assisted living facilities, as well as clients of New Jersey’s home health agencies.  The goal of this program is to increase specialized wound care education, skills and certification of nursing staff and to dramatically expand the number of New Jersey nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living facilities and home health agencies that utilize wound care certified professionals in prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers.

A week-long wound care training course with wound care certification examination will be offered at four different locations in the state of New Jersey.

• • St. Barnabas Behavioral Health-Toms River-Southeast   1691 US Highway Route 9 – CN 2025 ,Toms River, NJ 08754
  • St. Barnabas Ambulatory Care Center- Livingston- North  200 South Orange Ave, Livingston , NJ  07039
  • Barry Brown Center – Virtua – Southwest 106 Carnie Blvd, Vorhees , NJ, 08043
  • NJHA- Central  760 Alexander Road , Princeton , NJ, 08543

The course will be given by the Wound Care Education Institute and Wound Care Certification exam and credentials will be offered by the National Alliance of Wound Care®.

Qualified New Jersey nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living facilities and home health agencies will be given the opportunity to send participants.

The initiative is being sponsored by the National Alliance of Wound Care® (NAWC®) in cooperation with the New Jersey Hospital Association’s Institute for Quality & Patient Safety.

Nursing homes whose nurses complete the course and pass the certification exam will be eligible to have $1,000 of the registration fee returned thanks to the generous support of New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services through the nursing home civil monetary penalty fund.

Who can apply?

Licensed New Jersey nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living facilities and home health agencies may submit an application for employees who must meet the following criteria:

• Applicant is a current employee of the facility submitting the application.
• The applicant holds an active, unrestricted New Jersey license as Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse.
• It can be documented that wound care has been a component of the applicant’s job duties for at least 2 years out of the last 5 years.

Only qualified individuals will be allowed to participate in the program.

Qualified applicants who are accepted for participation will be required to attend all four days of the training class, no absences permitted.  Organizations will be responsible for travel and lodging of chosen participants, if necessary.

Instructions

1. Complete the course application.
2. Submit application along with $2597.00 course fee to Wound Care Education Institute. Make checks payable to “Wound Care Education Institute” or complete credit card section on the application.
3. Applicants will receive notification of course acceptance within 2 business days of receiving application. Notifications will be made by phone and/or email.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD APPLICATION

The fund is derived from federal enforcement and is allocated to New Jersey
from the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services.  The purpose of the fund is to improve quality in
nursing homes.

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