Caring for Chronic Wounds: A Knowledge Update
By By Patricia A. Slachta, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN
Expiration Date: December 31, 2010. No CE contact hours (CH) will be given after this date.
Purpose: To provide registered nurses with information to manage wounds better.
Objectives:
- Explain how to assess a chronic wound.
- Identify factors that affect wound healing.
- Describe how to prepare the wound bed.
- Sate factors related to the choice and use of dressings.
Description: Wound care is a lot more sophisticated than it used to be. Here’s what you should know about assessing and managing chronic wounds.
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Patricia A. Slachta, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CWOCW, is a Clinical Nurse Specialist at the Queens Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, and a nursing instructor at the Technical College of the Lowcountry in Beaufort, South Carolina. The planners and author of this CNE activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with any commercial companies pertaining to this activity.
1.5 contact hours are provided by ANA.
The American Nurses Association Center for Continuing Education and Professional Development is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP6178.
