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Monday

Presented by Mölnlycke Health Care

Learner Objectives:
1. Learner will be able to describe some components of a pressure injury prevention bundle.
2. Learner will understand the importance of pressure injury prevention in the emergency department.


Monday

Presented by Urgo Medical

Protocols are vital in clinical practice; however wound care presents unique challenges that can impact quality outcomes. In this session, we will explore consensus guidelines and published evidence to understand how variables can be removed through the standardized use of Pure Hypochlorous Acid (pHA) preserved solutions to improve outcomes and lives for patients.


Monday

In this session we will review simple, low-cost solutions to footwear and offloading techniques for plantar ulcerations, and protection of feet. In many parts of the world appropriate/protective shoes are not available or are prohibitively expensive. These solutions can be accomplished with materials, tools, and supplies available locally in low resource regions of the world.



Objectives:
  • Attendees will have knowledge of low-cost solutions for protective therapeutic footwear.
Monday

The world of intestinal failure has changed markedly over the last 30 years. From TPN dependence and the complications of intestinal failure associated liver disease and central line management, intestinal transplantation came to the fore as the ultimate salvage therapy. Now some 30 years later, the pendulum has swung somewhat to fewer transplants and better long term salvage with medical and surgical therapies for intestinal failure. New pharmacological therapies may offer alternatives to transplantation. This session will review where we started, how we progressed and what is the paradigm for managing intestinal failure patients, adults and children currently.



Objectives:
  • Understand the complexities and various options for patients with intestinal failure.
Monday

This session will describe how one urban, teaching hospital garnered support for and developed a team of Skin Champions. It will explain how this team has created evidence-based algorithms and protocols to guide practice for both prevention and treatment of skin injuries. Tools, education tactics, and documentation will all be shown to illustrate how this team is translating evidence into practice, one patient at a time.



Objectives:
  • Attendees will be able to design an evidence-based pressure injury prevention program that utilizes bedside staff in order to reduce Hospital Acquired Skin Injuries.
Monday

Nurses and health care aides provide the majority of frontline continence care across settings, from hospital to long term care. Unfortunately, this care is often seen as 'simple" or "basic", and assigned to care aides with minimal professional involvement. Myths abound, including the myth that incontinence is an inevitable part of aging. This presentation will focus on how education for nurses and health care aides can shift to understanding continence as a complex part of care when viewed from the lens of lower urinary tract symptoms rather than a binary of people being simply continent or incontinent. The different learning needs for licensed nurses versus care aides will be identified, and approaches to team work to improve continence promotion, assessment and management through education strategies explored.



Objectives:
  • Participants will understand the need to consider the educate nurses and care aides on the complexity of lower urinary tract symptom and assessment.
Monday

In this session, we will explore five classes of medications that increase the risk of incontinence or increased risk of related issues including Incontinence Associated Dermatitis (IAD), adverse changes in cognition, falls and urinary tract infection. Drug classes that will be reviewed include: anticholinergics, calcium channel blockers, diuretics, psychotropic drugs, and sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors.



Objectives:
  • Learners improve their knowledge of common medications that potentially contribute to worsening of continence status and lower urinary tract symptoms.
Monday

For millions of people around the globe, travelling is an integral part of modern life, encompassing both recreational and occupational activities, with little attention being paid to the complexities it may hold. However, since the outbreak of the novel Covid-19 strain of the coronavirus, the concept of travel has changed universally. For some people, travel has become impossible or too challenging to consider, leading to an array of physical and psychological conditions. This session aims to inform nurses how they can holistically support stoma and pouch patients who are either new to the concept of travel or those who have lost confidence to do so.



Objectives:
  • To be able to provide holistic advice for stoma or pouch patients wishing to travel by assisting them to navigate the various modes of travel, find accessible toilet facilities and make necessary lifestyle changes.
Monday

This session aims to provide an overview of the roles of medical decision-making and education in pediatric ostomy surgery, with a focus on the developmental nuance this populations present. The decision-making by parents, patients, and providers are complex in navigating the child’s development, psychosocial health/considerations, and clinical equipoise of other medical options; additionally, these experiences become more nuanced in integrating the child or adolescent’s perspective in a manner that is developmentally and culturally appropriate. This session will incorporate recent research about what is known for medical decision-making and education in pediatric ostomy surgery. Implications of this research, as well as the gaps in knowledge will be discussed and will then highlight the work that needs to be done in this area. Additionally, this session will incorporate resources and clinical considerations for attendees.



Objectives:
  • Learners will have an improved understanding of the developmental considerations in ostomy surgery in pediatrics, with clinical resource knowledge.