Wound Care Clinical Essentials: Skin Assessment

Nancy Morgan, RN, BSN, WOCN, CWCMS

Webinar Description:

Skin Assessment

Webinar Topic: Wound Care

Speaker: Nancy Morgan, RN, BSN, WOCN, CWCMS

CE Credit(s): 1.0

Length: 60 minutes

Webinar Description:
A skin assessment is an essential component to help gain insight into your patient’s overall well-being! A head-to-toe assessment should be completed upon admission and as often as needed per patient risk factors. This will ensure the detection of normal and abnormal presentation of lesions, conditions, and diseases on the skin.

Webinar Learning Objectives:

Understand the importance of skin assessments for all patients.
Learn how differences in skin color, moisture, turgor, temperature, edema, texture, pain, and nutrition affects all skin types.
Evaluate skin assessment findings to ensure appropriate interventions are included in patient’s plan of care, especially for high-risk patients.

California Board of Registered Nursing-Continuing Education Provider license/certification number 17756. 1.0 Contact Hour (s).

Free