Education/CE Sessions

Wound Assessment

Accurate wound assessment is a critical component of effective wound management. This session will offer tips and techniques for ensuring wounds are managed correctly.

Dealing With Patients, Peers & Managers With Personality Deficits

Have you ever encountered a boss, co-worker, patient or in the case of a manager, a direct report who you are sure has a personality deficit? These individuals challenge your conflict management skills. This session will provide insights and strategies on how to deal with these individuals.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been used for decades to treat a variety of conditions, but is finding new avenues of opportunity in the field of wound care. Learn about the two methods of delivering hyperbaric oxygen therapy, mono-person chambers and multi-person chambers; the way in which hyperbaric oxygen affects the tissues and supports the healing process; and the implications that accompany the therapy.

Communicating for Safer Environments

Good communication makes a safer environment for patient care. Review legal and professional issues to achieve this goal.

Getting Tangled in Charlotte's Web: A Case Study

This session will profile one woman's untoward outcome; how a series of errors culminated in her cardiac arrest. Her case influenced the development Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal regarding reporting critical lab results.

Can Compassion Coexist in High-Tech Healthcare?

This interactive session explores the art of compassion, the main reason most caregivers chose healthcare as a career. Students, new grads and veteran healthcare caregivers will work in groups to discuss how you measure your own and your colleagues' compassion.

Build a Great Working Relationship With Your Boss

Your boss is key to your current on-the-job satisfaction and to your future success in the organization. So make your supervisor look good for hiring you. Efforts you make now toward a productive working relationship will pay off down the road - for your facility and for you.

Workplace Violence

The healthcare work environment can be stressful and dangerous and can include verbal and physical violence. Learn strategies to reduce exposure to workplace violence.

Restoring Harmony & Reducing Stress

Whether you are a new healthcare professional or have many years of experience, you can avoid burnout by learning to balance your life.