Wound Prevention and Management Video Teleconference

January 18, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
EDII, B107, UAMS

This free video teleconference, jointly sponsored by the AGEC, the GRECC at CAVHS and the Reynolds Institute on Aging at UAMS, requires no participant pre-registration. Attendees to this VTC will receive 2 hours of CE credits.

Objectives

At the completion of this 2-hour video teleconference attendees will be able to:

  1. Identify markers of poor nutritional status that may contribute to the development of tissue breakdown;
  2. Describe key nutrients needed for wound healing and their role in wound health;
  3. List three priorities of wound healing;
  4. Describe seven principles that will optimize the wound environment;
  5. List the of the Insensate Foot Classification System; and
  6. Apply strategies to "unload" the Neuropathic Ulcer.

Tentative Schedule:

11:30 – 11:35
Opening Remarks – Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, FADA
11:35 – 12:00

Nutrition and Wound Healing – Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, FADA
12:00 – 12:35
Wound Healing Priorities and Principles – Molly Brethour, RN, CWOCN
12:35 – 12:45

Break

12:45 – 1:15
Evaluation of the Insensate Foot and Care of Neuropathic Ulcerations – An Overview – Judy W. Applin, OTR/L, CHT
1:15 – 1:30
Q & A
1:30
 Closing remarks – Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, FADA

Faculty:

Molly Brethour, RN, CWOCN, is the Enterostomal Therapy (WOCN) Nurse at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHS) in Little Rock, AR.  A consultant, educator and researcher on issues dealing with skin, wounds, ostomies, and incontinence management. Provides both inpatient and outpatient services in Acute and Long Term Care settings.

Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, FADA – Dr. Chernoff is the Director of the Arkansas Geriatric Education Center, Director of Education at the Donald W. Reynolds Center on Aging, UAMS; and Associate Director Education at the Geriatric Research, Education Clinical Center at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System.  A professor at the DWR Department of Geriatrics, she is a past president of the American Dietetic Association.

Judy W. Applin, OTR/L, CHT is the Coordinator of the Preservation, Amputation Care and Treatment Program (PACT) at CAVHS in Little Rock, AR. She is the co-author of “Degenerative Joint Disease, ”Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, (Feb 1990) Vol. 4, No. 1, Hanley and Belfus, Inc.

Target Audience

All health professionals and the interested lay public.