Welcome to Wound Care.

Understanding the overall process, from starting your risk assessments to analyzing your data, is the first step to being able to promote a well-developed wound care program.

In the CDC training module, you learned about the development and implementation of the Infection Control Risk Assessment.

If the Risk Assessment deemed that wound infection is at high risk for your facility or unit, you may stratify this further by completing a Wound Care Risk Assessment to see what details are truly at risk for your facility. 

Once the Wound Care Risk Assessment is completed, you will have a better understanding of what you want to focus your goals on for the upcoming year.

Based off your risk assessment and goals, you will be able to implement a surveillance plan.

Throughout the surveillance period, you should analyze your data, and evaluate for concerns, trends, or risks.

You will take this information and data to your facility's Quality Improvement Committee, Wound Care Committee, or other interdisciplinary committees to secure their help in supporting the overall care of your residents and the plan. 

This module will go over each of these steps in detail.

A facility will always have concerns, risks, and trends in data, but how and when a facility responds is the key.

Risk assessments, goals, and plans should remain fluid; as facility data is analyzed and reviewed, risks, goals, and plans may need to change. 

PREREQUISITE

We expect learners to complete the CDC's Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course before beginning this course. 

If you have not completed the CDC's training, please stop this course now and complete it before beginning.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This continuing education activity is intended for physicians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, and other healthcare professionals serving as Infection Preventionists (IPs) in nursing home settings.

GLOBAL LEARNING OBJECTIVES

As a result of participation in this course members of the healthcare team will be able to:

1. Utilize an interdisciplinary approach in the development of a nursing home Infection Prevention and Control Program which includes accessing external resources such as those provided by local, state and national public health systems
2. Perform a variety of infection-related risk assessments, interpret risk assessment results and develop a plan to respond to identified risks
3. Develop an infection tracking system, interpret and report data generated from this surveillance system, and use the results to demonstrate achievement of identified goals or strategize for improving outcomes
4. Employ approaches for controlling the spread of pathogens in outbreak and non-outbreak situations

COURSE 12 LEARNING OBJECTIVES

As a result of participation in this course members of the healthcare team will be able to:

• Complete the wound infection segment of an Infection Prevention and Control Risk Assessment.
• Stratify an Infection Prevention and Control Risk Assessment into a Wound Care Risk Assessment.
• Develop a quality improvement wound care plan using best practices.
• Describe the value of engaging your facility's interdisciplinary team (e.g., Quality Improvement Committee, Wound Care Committee) in quality improvement planning, implementation, and reassessment for wound care.