(HS Aviles / Faust 078496 2022) Current state of Wound Care: Trends, Barriers, and Opportunities
Tracking # 20-935469
Course overview
Wound Care is a complex and multifaceted specialty! Regardless of the type, wounds are devasting for your patients and a never ending challenge for you! Almost every day, new information, new products are introduced, and technology evolves. It is not easy to keep up with it all. Frank and Lizzie will launch the summit with an exciting session that will provide you with the latest evidence to help you keep up with it all and help your patients heal! By sharing the best practices from many wound care providers, you do not need to "reinvent the wheel," but instead can learn from the best and take away new strategies that you can implement immediately! In this recording, Frank Aviles and Elizabeth Faust, the co-hosts of The Frank & Lizzie Show, will go over some of latest trends in wound care, talk about challenges of our specialty and highlight the amazing opportunities on the horizon! We promise a fun and interactive session!
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
Arizona Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners
Occupational Therapist
Occupational Therapy Assistant
Florida Board of Nursing
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
Licensed Practical Nurse
Registered Nurse
Florida Board of Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapist
Occupational Therapy Assistant
Disclosure statements
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Frank Aviles maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Academy of Lymphatic Studies, Natchitoches Regional Medical Center, and Louisiana Extended Care Hospital. He receives a speaking honorarium and consulting fee from WoundVision, Kerecis, Abbot Nutrition, Kent Imaging, Urgo, Healthy.io, Renovoderm, Heliant, and Advanced Oxygen Therapy. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Frank Aviles is on the Why Wound Care and Wound Source advisory boards, is on the editorial board for Today’s Wound Clinic, Today’s Wound Clinic – “Let's Be Frank” columnist and co-hosts The Frank & Lizzie Show. He is a board member for Community Healthcare Education Network, is on the board of directors for the American Professional Wound Care Association, is an advisory board member for Wound Source and vTail. Frank Aviles serves as an education committee member for the American College of Certified Wound Specialist and is a board member for the Save a Leg Save a Life Foundation. He is a member of the APTA and the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Elizabeth Faust has an employment relationship Reading Hospital and is the co-host and owner of “The Frank & Lizzie Show” LLC. She is a consultant and receives a speaking honorarium from Medline Industries and Kerecis. Elizabeth Faust is a consultant for Urgo Medical, vTail, and 3M. She receives a speaking honorarium from Mölnlycke Health Care and PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Elizabeth Faust is the vice president of American Professional Wound Care Association and serves on the editorial board of Wound Management and Prevention. She is a member of the Wound, Ostomy, Continence Society and the World Council of Enterostomal Therapists.