Certificate Program

Home Care Wound and Ostomy Essentials

Enhance your knowledge and skills with wound and ostomy care in the home health setting.

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Home Care Wound and Ostomy Essentials
  • 5 Courses
  • 7 CE Hours
  • 3 Resources

About this Certificate Program

This program will provide the skills and knowledge to become a competent and confident home health provider with wound and ostomy care. This will include identifying, as well as staging many different wounds one will encounter with the home care patient. It’s essential to accurately identify the characteristics of a wound, document them correctly, as well as address complications that may arise when caring for a patient with wounds. A detailed case study will be introduced to help with these skills. These courses will familiarize one with the holistic approach of wound care which includes numerous topical treatments and how they are used appropriately. Included in this certificate is a course on caring for a patient with an ostomy, which covers identifying types of ostomies, pouching technique, ostomy pouches/accessories, and peristomal skin complications.

Target audience

Nurses as well as therapy staff that care for wounds and ostomies in the home health setting.

Goals & objectives

  • Accurately stage pressure injuries, identifying venous stasis, arterial, and diabetes-related, neuropathic wounds.

  • Identify and document wound characteristics and complications.

  • Provide holistic wound care including applying evidence-based practice with topical treatments.

  • Demonstrate proper care for the ostomy patient, including pouching techniques and complication resolution that may arise with the ostomy.

What’s included in the Certificate Program

Courses
Accredited Online Courses*

7 hours of online video lectures and patient demonstrations.

Courses
Case Study Interviews

Recorded Q&A sessions between instructors and practice managers.

Courses
Interactive Learning Assessments

Case-based quizzes to evaluate and improve clinical reasoning.

Certificate Program overview

Instructors

Carrie Adkins, RN, BSN, CWOCN
Carrie Adkins

RN, BSN, CWOCN

CEU approved

7 total hours* of accredited coursework.
Medbridge accredits each course individually so you can earn CEUs as you progress.

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