
Florida Skin Care Champion Class Spring 2025
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 Course Coordinator, Krissy Jiang| [email protected]
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
This conference room it at the main Florida hospital campus at the data center. There will be signage if you're not sure where to go. For the easiest access, exit to outside, right next to the auditorium entrance. Head to the right, and badge into the building that's to your right. Once inside, head straight through the double doors and the room will be the first one you see on your left (it's across from the bathroom)
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Available Credit
- 3.25 ANCC Nursing Contact Hour
In support of improving patient care, Nemours Children’s Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Nemours Children’s Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.25 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 3.25 Continuing EducationThis activity is designated for 3.25 continuing education credits.