Wound Care Nutrition: Helping Your Patients be Encouraged not Malnourished

Wound Care Nutrition:  Helping your Patients be Encouraged not Malnourished

By Nancy Collins, PhD, RDN, LD, NWCC, FAND

Wound Care Nutrition: Helping your Patients be Encouraged not Malnourished

Webinar Topic:  Wound Care and Nutrition

CE Credit(s): 1.0

Length: 50 minutes plus 10 minutes of Q & A

Webinar Description:     

Patients living with wounds face nutritional challenges, which can greatly affect their ability to heal unless properly addressed. This session will look at common nutritional issues including obesity implications, renal compromise, and lack of appetite. Strategies that can keep your patients encouraged about improving their nutritional status rather than malnourished will be discussed.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the program, the participant will be able to:

At the conclusion of this session attendees will be able to:

1. Describe the detrimental effects of malnutrition and loss of lean body mass on wound healing
2. Identify the key macro- and micronutrients needed to build new tissue
3. Illustrate the function of collagen dipeptides in the wound healing process

Nancy Morgan Wound Care is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing-Continuing Education Provider license/certification number 17756. 1.0 Contact Hour (s).