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Section: Wounds

Wound Hygiene: An Updated Approach to Optimizing Wound Tissue Health

Dot Weir, RN, CWON, CWS

Dot Weir, RN discusses the role that wound cleansing plays in wound bed preparation. She also describes wound hygiene and how it differs from simple wound cleansing.

CEU (Credits: 0.5)

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  1. Discuss the role that wound cleansing plays in wound bed preparation
  2. Describe wound hygiene and how it differs from simple wound cleansing
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  • CEU (Credits: 0.5)

    NURSING: Nurse CE is provided for this program through collaboration between Present e-Learning Systems and AffinityCE. AffinityCE is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC). This activity provides 0.5 contact hours of nurse CE credit.

    Release Date: 03/01/2020 Expiration Date: 01/01/2022

  • Author

  • Dot Weir, RN, CWON, CWS

    Clinician
    Saratoga Hospital Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine
    Saratoga Springs, NY

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    Dot Weir is a consultant and speaker for 3M/KCI.

    This continuing education activity is managed and accredited by AffinityCE in cooperation with Present e-Learning Systems. AffinityCE and Present e-Learning Systems Staff, as well as Planners and Reviewers, have no relevant financial interests to disclose. Conflict of Interest when present was resolved through peer review of content by a non-conflicting reviewer.

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