This session will provide an opportunity for you to hear the latest research findings in WOC nursing. Research-based abstracts are selected by a rigorous, two-step peer review process. Clinical investigators will present their findings in a moderated session.

Healing rates for hypertrophic granulation treated with topical steroid or with silver nitrate chemical cautery
Learner Outcome:

• The participant will learn how hypertrophic granulation wound healing with topical steroid compares with silver nitrate treatment

The business of WOC Nurses IS business but clinicians often lack the requisite skills for developing, maintaining, and evaluating an excellent clinical practice. This session will address critical skills needed by WOC nurses for clinical activities such as consulting for patient. Pragmatic processes (news you can use) are emphasized.

Learner Outcome:

• Learners will analyze components and processes related to successful business practices in WOC nursing.

When you do not have a real live ostomy or wound to demonstrate pouching or dressing application, what do you do? Creating ways to mimic real scenarios can be a challenge. We are creative as WOC nurses and with an imaginative and artistic eye will cruise the isles of craft and hardware stores looking for anything to use to create innovative realistic models for nurses to practice on. Nothing is off limits! In this session, learn how we created wound and ostomy models for education of nursing staff.

Learner Outcome:

• Learner will be able to develop affordable hands on teaching tools for quality staff development to improve outcomes of patients with wounds and ostomies.

High output ostomy is cause for much morbidity among patients, in particular the unappreciated effects on both short and long term renal function. In addition to this significant patient burden, health care costs are increased, and from an administrators perspective, these costs can be considerable if patients are readmitted less than 28-days after discharge for their ostomy surgery. The purpose of this session is to bring this important information to light and to provide the clinician with strategic interventions to, most importantly, keep our patients safe, but also keep health care costs down.

Learner Outcome:

• Participants will be able to strategically select and dose medications to enhance absorption and decrease stool volume, and determine when to enlist diet and fluid recommendations.

Our population is aging. Problems with incontinence (both urinary and fecal) are increasing along with that aging population. All nurses are expected to be continence care nurses regardless of the level of care they work in. Research is increasingly showing how incontinence affects the skin and increases the risk for pressure, friction and moisture damage that can be painful and chronic. In this session, learn how to embrace being the Continence nurse you are (if not you, then who) with a review of current tools developed by the Society and up to date research on the impact your continence knowledge has on the quality of life for most of the patients you serve.

Learner Outcome:

• WOC nurses will embrace and engage the Role of the Continence nurse in their daily practice.

This session will provide an overview of the use of an algorithm for incontinence management in the critical care setting that was utilized in a surgical intensive care unit to reduce the incidence of hospital acquired incontinence associated dermatitis (IAD). The algorithm included evidence based products for the management of fecal and urinary incontinence and utilized the Bristol Stool Scale to further drive product selection for incontinence management for the intensive care clinical registered nurse. The algorithm also utilized the GLOBIAD tool for the identification of IAD. Results of this quality improvement project yielded a 24% reduction in the incidence of hospital acquired IAD over a period of four months. Utilization of the GLOBIAD tool also allowed for intensive care registered nurses to identify IAD in 24% of incontinent patients on admission to the surgical intensive care unit.

Learner Outcome:

• The learner will be able to understand that the WOC nurse can equip and empower the non WOC nurse with proper evidence based knowledge about incontinence management, incontinence associated dermatitis (IAD) identification and IAD prevention in order to reduce the incidence of IAD in the clinical setting and improve identification of IAD.

It is no secret that we live in a global society. Wound, ostomy and continence nurses work in myriad of settings with client populations that reflect global diversity. Healthcare providers and clients alike benefit from care informed by global engagement. This session will review the definitions of global health, speaker's experiences from different parts of the world, and the concept of “glocal” care (translating global knowledge and understanding at the local level).

Learner Outcome:

• The learner will be able to apply concepts of global knowledge to address health care needs of individuals at the local level.