Pressure Injury Prevention for the Non-wound Care Therapist

Learn the latest evidence-based approaches to preventing pressure injury.

Pressure Injury Prevention for the Non-wound Care Therapist

Self Paced
$49
2 Contact Hour (0.2 CEU)

Educational Level: Intermediate

Category 3: Foundational Knowledge

If you need assistance or accommodations, please contact us at support@elevatingalliedhealth.com

Prerequisites: None

Target Audience Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Occupational Therapy Students, Physical Therapists, Physical Therapy Assistants, Physical Therapy Students, Physical Therapy Assistant Students

Pressure injuries affect an estimated 1 to 3 million in the United States annually. Physical and occupational therapy practitioners can play an essential role in the early identification and prevention of pressure-related injuries, including addressing risk factors such as immobility, malnutrition, and sensory loss.

This course provides non-wound care therapists with an understanding of how pressure injury scores are used and how to interpret results. The instructor also covers the latest evidence on pressure injury prevention techniques that can be incorporated into the therapist’s treatment plan.

Content disclosure: This course does not focus or endorse any specific product or service.

Presented by: Dr. Stephanie A. Slayton PT, DPT, CWS, CLT-LANA

Benefits of the course:

List primary risk factors for pressure injury development.
Verbalize the six subscales of the Braden Scale for predicting pressure score risks.
Interpret evaluation results in terms of patient’s risk for pressure injury development.
Identify effective communication strategies with an interdisciplinary team regarding identified risk factors for pressure injury prevention.
Describe the development of a treatment plan consistent with discipline roles that incorporates pressure injury prevention.

Course Agenda

Time (in minutes)	Content to be Covered
0-3	Introduction
3-19	Defining Pressure Injuries
19-25	Risk Assessment Instruments
25-52	Correlating Nursing and Therapy Risk Assessments
52-87	Communicating Assessment Findings/Pressure Injury Prevention as Part of Treatment Plan
87-101	Case Study
101-120	Questions and Post-Assessment

Instructor Bio

Dr. Stephanie Slayton is a physical therapist certified in Wound Care (CWS) and Lymphedema (CLT-LANA). She has worked in the acute care hospital for over twenty years, currently with the Inpatient Skin and Wound Team at ECU Health in Greenville, NC. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Physical Therapy Department at East Carolina University and enjoys PRN work at a Skilled Nursing Facility. Dr. Slayton is a member of the Support Surface Standards Initiative (S3I), a working group that is part of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP). In addition, Dr. Slayton has published and presented numerous times on various topics related to wound prevention and management.

Dr. Slayton earned her BS in Biology from University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, and her Master’s and Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Elon University. In her free time, she enjoys spending time outside kayaking and biking, knitting, and hanging out with her dogs.

Disclosures:
Financial:
Stephanie is compensated as a paid instructor for Atlas Education.

Non-financial:
Stephanie has no financial interest in promoting or endorsing a specific product or service.

Completion Requirements

In order to receive credit for the course you must meet the following criteria:

Purchase course
Record of attendance for entirety of the webinar
Verification of learner identity (attestation statement on post-test)
Pass the post-test with a grade of 70% or greater
Complete the post-course evaluation.

Course Refunds and Accomodations

Refund Policy
Full refunds will be given for participants who experience technical difficulties or express dissatisfaction with the course at any time prior to completion of the post-test. Refunds will be processed within 7 business days of the customer’s refund request. Refund requests can be emailed to support@elevatingalliedhealth.com

Special Needs Requests
Elevating Allied Health will make accommodations in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you require specific accommodations because of a disability by emailing support@elevatingalliedhealth.com

Requests may also be made by calling the Program Coordinator at, at 252-714-8568 between 9:00 AM–5:00 PM ET Monday-Friday.

Accreditation of this course does not necessarily imply the FPTA supports the views of the presenter or the sponsors.

Cancellation Policy
Elevating Allied Health may cancel live webinar training if no more than five registrations have been received 24 hours prior to the training or when a speaker emergency arises. Refunds for the full amount will be credited to accounts within 24 hours of cancellation. Learners will be notified by email before the training start time.

Course Approvals

1 Contact Hour (0.2 AOTA CEUs)

Florida Physical Therapy Association (FPTA) Approval Number CE24-1096694. Accreditation of this course does not necessarily imply the FPTA supports the views of the presenter or the sponsor.