When Healing is Not the Goal: Palliative Wound Care & SCALE (Skin Changes At Life’s End)
Date/Time: 09/10/2014, 10:00 am - 11:15 am
Provider: Florida Hospice & Palliative Care Association
Though based on the same fundamental scientific principles, palliative wound care requires a different mindset than traditional wound care. In this webinar, you will learn how to distinguish the difference between a Pressure Ulcer and a Kennedy Terminal Ulcer, how to describe “Skin Changes At Life’s End” (SCALE), how to list the five P’s for determining appropriate intervention strategies for patients at the end of life, and will discuss prevention and treatment interventions for individuals at life’s end.
Speaker: Kim Kehoe BSN, RN, CWOCN, DAPWCA, Clinical Education Specialist – Advanced Skin and Wound Care Division, Medline Industries
Kim is a Certified Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurse through the WOCN Certification Board. She is a member of the WOCN Society, The Association for the Advancement of Wound Care and a Diplomat of the American Professional Wound Care Association. Kim brings with her over 29 years of Nursing experience to include Preoperative and Critical Care Nursing with the past 20 years dedicated to ET/WOC Nursing consulting in acute, home and long term care settings.
This webinar is sponsored by 
