North Alabama Nurse Practitioner Association
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ON DEMAND APRN-2-APRN Collaboration Call - Acute and Chronic Wounds: The Basics and Beyond

CE Information
1.0 contact hour
Completion Time
54 minutes
Available Until
May 25, 2025
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Overview

Specialties
Family
Subspecialties
Primary Care and Wound Care
Clinical Topics
Wound Care

This presentation will discuss:

  • Wound healing phases
  • Wound assessment
  • Type of wounds
  • Wound cleaning, ideal dressing & types of dressings
  • Infection, antibiotics & more!

Learning Objectives

OUTCOME

100% of participants will be able to state at least one intended practice change related to wound management.

Speakers

Alyssa Smolen
Alyssa Smolen DNP, APRN, FNP-BC

Advanced Practice Nurse

Alyssa is a family nurse practitioner in Peoria, IL. She currently works full time in Internal Medicine and part-time in a rural wound care clinic. She is wound care certified by the National Alliance of Wound Care and Ostomy. Working in wound care, Alyssa has found that this is often an area of healthcare many providers are not comfortable with. Unfortunately, this often results in patients receiving substandard care. Alyssa recognizes not everyone loves wounds, but is passionate about increasing knowledge and awareness of modern wound care. Alyssa lives in Peoria, IL with her husband and two young children.

CE Information

This activity offers 1.0 contact hour to attendees.

Accredited by Illinois Nurses Foundation is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Montana Nurses Association, an accredited approver with distinction by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

CE ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • The nurse planners, content experts, faculty, and others in control of content (either individually or as a group) have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
  • The Illinois Nurses Foundation and the Illinois Society for Advanced Practice Nursing jointly provided this program.

Disclosures

The nurse planners, content experts, faculty, and others in control of content (either individually or as a group) have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

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  • Acute and Chronic Wounds PDF (Size: 4.72 MB)
Presentation - Acute and Chronic Wounds: The Basics and Beyond
Duration: about 1 hour | Quality: HD
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