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.

Presented by 3M Medical Solutions

Pressure injuries are significant health issues and one of the biggest challenges that healthcare professionals face daily. These injuries have a great impact on patients’ lives, interfering with their functional recovery and can result in longer hospital stays and complications. During this session, the speaker will discuss the guidelines and best practices for pressure injury prevention throughout the care continuum.

Presented by Hollister Incorporated

Join us as we share new product innovations in Two-Piece Soft Convexity available from Hollister Incorporated. Perspectives will be shared by Hollister R&D on product development, as well as insights on how to utilize two-piece soft convexity in clinical practice.

Presented by Mölnlycke Health Care

In this session, Dr Singh will discuss her how her facility identified an issue with increased risk for pressure injury while proning Covid 19 patients. She will show several examples of the tissue breakdown that was identified, and the evidence based bundled approach they used to help decrease the risk of pressure injuries. She will finish with their lessons learned, and the guidelines they follow on when to implement the bundle for this patient population that is at increased risk.

Are you frustrated by non-healing venous wounds? Have venous wounds that are difficult to heal? Join this session to discover the relationship between chronic venous insufficiency, lymphedema and the impact on healing venous wounds. Participants will also learn a few treatment tricks to help you in your practice.

The rate of obesity across all healthcare settings is increasing. This rapidly evolving demographic affects the ability of the WOC professional to provide safe, consistent, size-appropriate care. This course reviews the pathophyiology of obesity as is relates to WOC practice, resources across the continuum and organizational innovations such as telehealth care, handling equipment and the latest innovations associated with assessment and treatment. Findings from a recently completed bariatric gap analysis will be presented along with solutions to these gaps.

This presentation gets right to the heart of the matter by reviewing top 10 practice and clinical pearls to promote bowel and bladder health and continence from an educator and wound, ostomy, continence nurse specialist’s 30+ years of experience! You are or can be a Continence Nurse Specialist no matter your level of licensure or care setting!
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This session will review variety of neonatal skin and wound care intricacies and challenges. It will familiarize the attendees with safe products and approaches through presentation of the real-life cases, concentrating on common neonatal cutaneous conditions mixed with unusual and difficult to treat ones.

Understanding and applying evidence based care to feet is an overlooked opportunity for skilled nursing to provide exceptional care that prevents adverse outcomes such as falls and wounds from happening. Foot health is paramount to quality of life but is often overlooked or misunderstood. The care of feet allows the nurse to utilize a multitude of skills including education, therapeutic touch, restoration of dignity and ongoing trusted therapeutic relationships. This type of nursing care meets the triple aims of the IHI. It translates into cost savings from a health care usage perspective and better patient outcomes. This presentation is about seeing the opportunity and the story behind developing it out into a sound business practice.

This session will explore the increased use of telehealth as a method for providing care to wound ostomy patients. Telehealth technology has gained popularity recently out of necessity, as a way to provide care to patients who are isolated during the pandemic. Telehealth has been utilized for many years to fill the gap in rural and underserved areas where access to a provider is not convenient or readily available. Nomenclature used in the field of telehealth will be explained and scenarios reviewed in which telehealth monitoring is used in practice. Advantages and challenges using telehealth in wound ostomy practice will be discussed.