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Pressure Injuries Webinar

March 26, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Free

Objectives:

Early Interventions

  • Risk Assessment
  • Hand-off/Communication
  • Standard Tactics

Wound Staging

  • Documentation Standards
  • Interventions

Vulnerable Populations

  • Braden Sub-scale Categories
  • Disparity

Medical Device-Related Pressure Injuries

Featured Speaker:

Dr. Holly Kirkland-Kyhn has worked as a Nurse Practitioner for over 20 years in the Sacramento community. Although trained in the US as an RN, she spent her early career working as a nurse and midwife in England and Ireland. She has travelled to Africa, Haiti, and Belize to work in disaster relief and in promoting safe maternal-child care in rural areas. She now works at UC Davis Medical Center as the Director of Wound Care and has led interdisciplinary team initiatives throughout the hospital to improve the safety and quality of care for patients. Dr. Kirkland-Kyhn is actively involved in research to the comparison of hospital acquired pressure ulcers and community acquired pressure ulcers.

WSHA Learning Collaboratives are available exclusively to WSHA systems, hospitals, physicians. They are also open to organizations participating in the WSHA/ASHNHA Partnership for Patients, including members of the Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association.  WSHA encourages your hospital to extend this invitation to your program providers, leaders and staff involved with relevant areas or work or study. 

Details

Date:
March 26, 2019
Time:
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Categories:
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Registration Link:
https://wsha.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=381c2b109dc0809662b7cd0da&id=245a5d157c&e=6acb759063

Organizers

Tina Seery
Joanna Castellanos

Affiliates

Contact Us

Washington State Hospital Association
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Suite 1400
Seattle, WA 98104

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