Tag: Ferne Elsass

Optimizing Time With Your Patients: Healing Wounds and Empowering Patients

Through Treatment Selection to Optimize Clinical and Economic Outcomes (webinar)
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2022
Time: 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time

 

Ferne Elsass, MSN, RN, CPN, CWON

 

Time is precious. Right now, we are witnessing a growing, aging population with multiple health issues and an increase in chronic wounds. The economic and human costs to treat wounds are high and can quickly spiral out of control. Health care providers are asked to do more with less.

Did you know, 70% of dressing changes are driven by schedules? Unnecessary dressing changes consume valuable time that could be used for patients’ other clinical needs, thus impacting their well-being. A total of 24% of patients with chronic wounds have lived with their wound for at least 6 months, with almost 16% of these wounds remaining unhealed for a year or more. It’s time to take control of chronic wound care while empowering our patients in their care … register