
Florida Skin Care Champion Class July 2025
Overview
Learners will learn how to stage pressure injuries, escalate injuries and implement practices to prevent injuries.
Target Audience
Registered Nurses, Respiratory Therapists, Advanced Practice Providers
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity participants will be able to:
Objective #1: Explain how to stage pressure injuries
Objective #2: Demonstrate the ability to identify and appropriately escalate care for pressure injuries based on severity
Objective #3: Implement practices to prevent hospital-acquired pressure injuries
Contact Information: If you have any questions regarding this course please contact the Clinical Nurse Specialists | NCHclinicalnursespecialists@nemours.org
Program
Skin Care Champions Class
8:00-8:15 Welcome & Introductions
8:15 – 9:45 Skin Care Lecture:
- Skin Champion roles & responsibilities
- Pressure Injury Staging
- Injury Prevention- Bundle
- Device rotation
- Padding
- Wound Care Treatment
- Include prophylaxis
- How to Document an Injury
- Difference between pressure LDA and wound LDA
9:45 – 10:00 Break
10:00 – 11:00 Stations (20 minutes at each)
- Treatment: Wound Dressings
- Prevention: Offloading Pressure & Skin Prophylaxis
- Show PIV padding placement
- Bring devices (gel pillow, zflo, etc)
- Beds
- Assessing Risk: Braden QD Scoring
- Review of tool; Scenarios
- What counts as a device
11:00-11:45 Case Studies:
- Evolving DTIs
- Braids
- Ortho-casting
- PIV
11:45-12:00 Evaluations & Wrap-Up
Venue
This conference room it at the main Florida hospital campus on the first floor in conference room C.
Faculty
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Accreditation
Available Credit
- 3.25 ANCC Nursing Contact Hour
Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
This activity is designated for 3.25 contact hours.
- 3.25 Continuing EducationThis activity is designated for 3.25 continuing education credits.