Is It Pressure? Identifying Pressure Injuries
For anyone who missed our recent “Identifying Pressure Injuries: Assessment and Staging” webinar, presented by Nancy Morgan, RN, BSN, MBA, WOC, WCC, DWC, OMS of the Wound Care Education Institute (WCEI), you can find the recording, webinar outline and wound identification cheat sheet below! If you’d like to receive CE credit for watching this webinar, please scroll down below the video and read the instructions (please do so before watching the video).*
In this webinar, we discuss how identifying the incorrect etiology of a wound can delay healing, waste money or even get health care professionals in trouble. Watch the video below to learn how to differentiate between pressure and other wounds including: moisture associated skin damage (MASD), diabetic foot ulcers, mucosal pressure ulcers, suspected deep tissue injury or bruise, friction, and split gluteal fold or skin tear.
You can find a detailed outline of the “Identifying Pressure Injuries” webinar here.
You can find the Wound Identification Cheat Sheet here.
*To receive CE Credit for watching this webinar, first head over to the Wound Care Education Institute’s site. You cannot receive credit by watching the video above.
At the WCEI site, you can register and then view the recorded webinar. On the first page, you will notice that it says receive the CE credit is $10. For viewers coming through Shield HealthCare, we are able to offer a special code that will waive that fee. The code is: SHIELDWEB
After you have created an account and used the above code, you will be able to watch the video for free. After viewing, WCEI will email an evaluation to you. Once they complete the evaluation, your CE will be emailed to you automatically.
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