This course is conducted over two days and is equivalent to 14 continuing professional development (CPD) hours.

Presenter Biography Gary Bain RN CNC MClinEd BN DipApSc MACN.                   

Gary has been involved in delivering and teaching wound management since 1987. Currently in private practice as The Wound Guy, Gary provides education to medical, nursing, allied-health and product-industry personnel. He also provides clinical support to patients and their clinicians in the aged care, primary care and community sectors. These activities are conducted concurrently with his present role as educator and nurse consultant in wound management at the Mt Wilga Private Hospital (Rehabilitation Centre). He is also a lecturer at Macquarie University with the Australian Lymphoedema Education, Research and Treatment (ALERT) division.

Key learning outcomes:

On completion participants will be better able to:

Describe the anatomy & physiology of the integumentary system

Outline the process of wound healing

Identify factors which negatively impact on wound repair

Engage with the HEIDI assessment strategy

Discuss recent developments in wound hygiene and wound bed preparation

Review the role and function of wound dressings

Consider updates in both the aetiologies and clinical practice associated with surgical site dehiscence, skin tears, pressure injury, leg ulcers and diabetic foot injury

Discuss current practice recommendations for wound infection and biofilm

Examine advances in oedema management and compression therapy

Program

8:00am                 Day 1 Registration

8:30am                 Course introduction

8:45am                 Anatomy & physiology of the integumentary system and the Wound healing pathway

9:30am                 Reasons for “hard-to-heal” wounds & the impact of Pharmacology on wound healing

10.30am              Morning Break

10:50am               Patient assessment – using the HEIDI strategy

11:45am               Wound dressings: a generic overview & using HEIDI as the product decision framework 

12:30pm               Lunch

1:15pm                 Antimicrobial dressings – practical considerations and new options

2.00pm                 Engaging with the wound & wound bed preparation … the wound hygiene paradigm

2:45pm                 Afternoon Break

3.00pm                 Wound infection – acute wound infection and biofilms

Biofilm based wound management

3:55pm                 Key messages review

4:00pm                 Close

8:15am                 Day 2 Registration / Arrive

8:30am                 Surgical wound dehiscence and the role of negative pressure wound therapy

9.15am                 Leg ulcers – venous and arterial aetiologies

10:30am               Morning tea

10:50am               Oedema and principles for compression therapy

11:45am               Pressure injury – causation, assessment, guidelines

12:30pm               Lunch

1:15pm                 Impact of diabetes on wound healing and foot ulceration

2:00pm                 Skin tears – a review of practice & introduction to ISTAP

2.45pm                 Hyper-granulation tissue – causes and treatment

3:20 – 3:30pm    Evaluations and Close

Fees

ACN members $410.00                     Non-members $455.00

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