Managing patients with chronic skin conditions and wound care needs can be challenging. Addressing the patient's underlying conditions causing chronic wounds and matching the appropriate dressing/drug/device to the patient's needs are essential steps for effective skin and wound management. Understanding the importance of a complete and well-rounded skin and wound care formulary is the first line of defense to support clinically efficient and cost effective outcomes for patients in all care settings.

Nationally known wound management expert Cathy Thomas Hess walks participants through the process of creating an effective wound care formulary that incorporates time-tested strategies as well as the latest clinical treatment strategies.

Training Objectives

After viewing this program, participants will be able to:

• Describe three reasons why it is important to perform a clinical needs assessment for your patient population prior to developing a formulary.
• Define three types of debridement that can be incorporated into an operational formulary.
• Select the appropriate skin and wound care products based on the dressing's form and the patient's needs.
• Verbalize three key terms used in wound care documentation.
• Define the three processes necessary to develop a wound healing pathway.
• Identify four professionals included on a wound care team and define their roles.
• Describe the seven principles of adult learning used to develop, implement and evaluate the effectiveness of adult learning.

About the Speaker

Cathy Thomas Hess, CWOCN is President and Clinical Director of Wound Care Strategies, Inc. She is a renowned skin and wound care consultant strategist and delivers a proven track record for strategic planning that spans a wide spectrum of both large and small healthcare organizations. She is the founder of Wound Care Strategies, 1995, which has become a comprehensive skin and wound care consulting company offering expertise to take clients to the next level, and is an independent developer of skin and wound care systems engaging a proprietary process to empower care settings to own and operate their own inpatient or outpatient wound care department (Cathy has been writing wound care programs for third parties for over fifteen years).

Cathy is positioned as a leading forecaster and strategist in the skin and wound care industry. Through her consulting services she offers suite of comprehensive skin and wound care consulting services including, independent skin and wound care systems development, clinical processes, seminars, workshops, clinical trial monitoring, and other related professional services.

Cathy has authored over 100 articles, is the author of the Clinical Wound Manager™ Manual Series, Long Term Care Policy and Procedure Manual, Clinical Guide to Wound Care, 5th ed., developer of TriAssess® Professional, TriAssess® Professional Plus, TriAssess® Elite, TriAssess® Premier software programs for long-term care, home health, physician’s offices, and outpatient wound care departments, TriAssess® Trials software for clinical trials, created a comprehensive paper-driver documentation system, appears in several educational videos, and sits on the Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurses Certification Board. She is also the Department Editor for Wound Care Infolink which appears in Advances in Skin and Wound Care.

What Is Included?

The CD includes the audio of the presentation, the slides prepared by the speaker and a .pdf file of the slides for printing. Your computer does need an audio component to use this CD.