Wound Care Assessment and Classification

Course overview

This course is intended for a wide audience of health care providers involved in advanced wound care management, including the registered nurse, nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, physical therapist, physician, physician's assistant, and others. The goals of the course are to review anatomy and wound healing physiology including impediments to wound healing like medications, wound etiology, assessment and classification and grading of wounds including diabetic, venous, arterial ulcerations and pressure, identification of infection versus inflammation and diagnosis and management algorithms.