Wound Care

Information

Proficiency Scale

1 = No Experience
2 = Need Training
3 = Able to perform with supervision
4 = Able to perform independently

Assessment Section

Work Settings

  • ✔ Acute Care Adult *
  • ✔ Clinic Adult *
  • ✔ SNF/LTAC/Subacute *
  • ✔ Hospice / Palliative Care *
  • ✔ Acute/Long Term Care Pediatrics *
  • ✔ Clinic Pediatrics *
  • ✔ Acute/Long Term Care Pediatrics *

Pressure Ulcers

  • ✔ Assessment *
  • ✔ Staging *
  • ✔ Prevention/Risk Assessment Tools - Adult *
  • ✔ Prevention/Risk Assessment Tools - Pediatrics *
  • ✔ Support Surface Selection *

Neuropathic Ulcers

  • ✔ Assessment *
  • ✔ Management *

Venous Stasis Ulcers

  • ✔ Assessment *
  • ✔ Management *

Peripheral Arterial Ulcers

  • ✔ Assessment *
  • ✔ Ankle Brachial Index *
  • ✔ Management *

Other Wounds

  • ✔ Fistulae Pouching / Skin Care *
  • ✔ Skin Care / Management of Drains *

Wound Debridement

  • ✔ Autolytic *
  • ✔ Enzymatic *
  • ✔ Mechanical *
  • ✔ Sharp *

Dressings/Treatments

  • ✔ Hydrogels *
  • ✔ Hydrocolloids *
  • ✔ Silver Products *
  • ✔ Foams *
  • ✔ Alginates *
  • ✔ Vacuum Assisted Closure *
  • ✔ Growth Factors *
  • ✔ Skin Substitutes *
  • ✔ Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy *
  • ✔ Wound Cultures *
  • ✔ Electrical Stimulation *
  • ✔ Enzymatic Debriding Agents *
  • ✔ Mist Therapy *

Colostomy / Ileostomy

  • ✔ Ostomy Equipment Selection *
  • ✔ Continence Skin Care Management *
  • ✔ Loop with Rod Stoma *
  • ✔ End Stoma *
  • ✔ Mucous Fistula *
  • ✔ Double Barrel Stoma *
  • ✔ Irrigation *
  • ✔ Ileal Lavage *

Continent Ileostomy

  • ✔ Knock Pouch *
  • ✔ Pelvic Pouch *

Urostomy / Continent

  • ✔ Catheterization for C&S *
  • ✔ Knock Pouch *
  • ✔ Neobladder *

Continence Therapeutic Devices

  • ✔ Vaginal Cones *
  • ✔ Penile Clamps *
  • ✔ Male External Catheters *
  • ✔ Internal Urethral Inserts *
  • ✔ Catheters Mgmt & Self Care Teaching *
  • ✔ Magnetic Therapy *
  • ✔ Urinary Incontinence Program *
  • ✔ Fecal Incontinence Program *

Burns

  • ✔ Burn Management *

Professional Knowledge and Skills

  • ✔ National Patient Safety Goals / Core Measures *
  • ✔ Patient Family Teaching *
  • ✔ Age Specific / Population Based Care *
  • ✔ Isolation Precautions *
  • ✔ Infection Precautions *
  • ✔ Pain Assessment & Management *
  • ✔ Interpretation & Communication of Lab Values *
  • ✔ EMR *
  • ✔ EPIC *
  • ✔ Cerner *
  • ✔ Eclipsys *
  • ✔ McKesson *
  • ✔ Other Computerized System *
  • ✔ Computerized Physician Order Entry *
  • ✔ Bar Coding for Medication *
  • ✔ Culture *

Other / Misc.

  • ✔ Pain Management Assessment of Pain Levels without Intervention *
  • ✔ Pain Management Response Assessment with Intervention *
  • ✔ Experience: Charge Duty *
  • ✔ Experience: Preceptor *

Age Specific Care

  • ✔ Infant (Birth - 1 year) *
  • ✔ Toddler (1-3 years) *
  • ✔ Pre-school (3-6 years) *
  • ✔ School Age (6-12 years) *
  • ✔ Adolescent (12-18 years) *
  • ✔ Young Adult (18-30 years) *
  • ✔ Mature Adult (30-60 years) *
  • ✔ Elderly (>60 years) *