Product Focus: Hydrocolloid Dressing Description: wafer dressing containing gel-forming agents in an adhesive compound laminated onto a flexible water resistant outer layer occlusive or semi-occlusive dressing to cover the wound and prevent bacteria and fluids from interacting with the wound while promoting moist wound healing and autolytic debridement __________________________________________ When to Use: to protect intact…
Category Archives: Wound Care Certified
NEW WOUND MANAGEMENT SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Check out the new Wound Management seminar schedule for 2012. 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…
WCEI Product Focus: Composite Dressings
Product Focus: Composite Dressings 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 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…
WCEI PRODUCT FOCUS: Understanding Collagen Dressing
WCEI Brings You A New Segment Called PRODUCT FOCUS Our objective is to provide ongoing education and resources to our wound care clinicians worldwide. Product Focus: Collagen Dressing Description: Freeze dried sheets of collagen, particles, pastes or gels usually derived from cow hides – they encourage the deposition and organization of newly formed collagen fibers…
Don’t Put Your Foot in Your Mouth: What You Must Know About Diabetic Footwear (Advanced)
This is a MUST go to presentation designed to educate the wound care professional on how diabetic shoes in the high-risk patient can greatly reduce the likelihood of ulcerations in their feet. We will together identify who are the high-risk patients through patient examples, discuss the anatomy of the high-risk diabetic and the importance of professionally fitted shoes in this population. We will conclude with specific examples of how specific ulcers could have been prevented. We’ll discuss the Diabetic Therapeutic Shoe Bill guidelines under the Medicare law, and explain how diabetic shoes can be a profitable business for your practice.
I am a Wound Care Certified Clinician, Now What?
This session will bring the power of the WCC to the forefront. We’ll discuss the ways in which to market the credential to the industry, from self promoting of the clinician and how to use social media/blogging to speaking, authoring of articles to spotlight the advanced credential. We’ll look at incorporating other credentials to the creation of wound care team
Paying It Forward and Making It COUNT!
Paying It Forward and making It Count will be presented by Nancy Morgan RN,BSN,MBA,WOCN,WCC,CWCMS, Co-Founder of WCEI and Donna Sardina RN,MHA,WCC,CWCMS , Co-Founder of WCEI at this year’s Wild on Wounds National Conference in Las Vegas September 7-10,2011
Awareness and Assessment Skills
I saw this video recently on YouTube and it got me thinking about assessment skills when it comes to wounds. As Wound Care Certified Professionals, we are held to a higher standard and our biggest skill and tool is our assessment skill set. The video above is a fun video and if your awareness is top notch you may have seen the Moonwalking Bear during the first segment of the video. However, if you didn’t see the Moonwalking Bear, you may have seen it in the second segment.
10,000 Wound Care Certified Professionals!!!!
The National Alliance of Wound Care (NAWC®) announced that it reached a milestone with its WCC credential. Effective today, NAWC certified over 10,000 WCCs since it began offering the accredited WCC certification in 2003. “The WCC credential is the most popular among clinicians and now ranks clearly as the leading wound care certification in the United States”, said Debbie Hecker RN, MBA, WCC, and Executive Director.
Diabetic Wound Certification Credentials
Introducing the DWC® credential (Diabetic Wound Certified). This is an advanced, specialized certification in diabetic wound management. It demonstrates a candidate’s proficiency and mastery of essential knowledge and skills of diabetic wound management above basic wound care certification. Diabetic wound management focuses on overall diabetic wound care and promotion of an optimal wound healing environment, including prevention, therapeutic interventions and rehabilitative interventions.
