Skin Care for the Elderly - Traditional Inservice

The traditional inservice format is designed to provide home health care providers, assisted living facilities, and skilled and long term care facilities all that is needed to deliver informative inservices to your certified nurse aides and staff. With our new unique design of inservice presentations you can take advantage of traditional in-person presentation methods and add modern teaching techniques of a visual presentation, interactive review questions and video presentations. Use our online course display to make your presentation visual, informative, fun, and interactive, incorporating all aspects of adult learning techniques.  With the use of a projector, screen, smart TV, or laptop our online inservices and interactive features, such as review questions and video teaching segments, are easily presented to the audience.

Our traditional format provides you with complete printable course curriculum handouts, final test/exam handout, final exam key for the presenter, sign in sheets to track attendance, printable certificates of completion, as well as printable skill competency checklists to verify competence in all skills related to the inservice.

This course will provide participants with a review of the basic safety considerations and guidelines necessary to maintain healthy skin and prevent skin breakdown in elderly clients, patients and residents. This review can be utilized for nursing assistive personnel throughout all healthcare settings, as the safety considerations for skin care do not change according to level of acuity. Within this course, the participant will review basic anatomy and physiology of the skin, normal changes of ageing and the skin, common skin problems of the elderly or ill, risk factors for skin breakdown, skin breakdown prevention interventions and strategies, improving communication to prevent skin breakdown, identifying the different types of skin breakdown, providing care for someone with impaired skin integrity, documenting and reporting skin impairment, and how to complete incident reporting in a timely and thorough manner. 

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
  1. Identify the basic anatomy and physiology of the skin.
  2. Describe normal changes of aging and the skin.
  3. Identify common skin problems of the elderly or ill.
  4. Discuss risk factors that may cause skin breakdown.
  5. Describe several ways to prevent skin breakdown.
  6. Explain how improving communication can prevent impaired skin integrity.
  7. Identify the different types of skin breakdown.
  8. Discuss ways to care for someone with impaired skin integrity.
  9. Describe effective documenting and reporting skin impairment.
  10. Explain how to complete incident reporting in a timely and thorough manner.

Curriculum

Chapter 1: Basic Anatomy and Physiology of the Skin

  • Anatomy and Physiology of the Skin
  • Normal Changes of Aging and the Skin ​

Chapter 2: Common Skin Problems of the Elderly or Ill

  • Skin Dryness
  • Skin Tears
  • Incontinence Associated Dermatitis (IAD)
  • Bruising, Contusions and Hematomas
  • Edema
  • Pressure Ulcers 

Chapter 3:  Skin Breakdown Risk Factors and Prevention

  • Skin Assessment
  • Identifying Risk Factors for Skin Breakdown

Chapter 4: Providing High-Quality Skin Care

  • Caring for Healthy Skin
  • Caring for Impaired Skin
  • Documenting and Reporting Impaired Skin Integrity​

Chapter 5: Incident Reporting

  • Completing an Incident Report in a Timely and Thorough Manner

Chapter 6: Print Course Resources

  • Course materials handouts; exam, exam key, certificate of completion, attendance sheet
  • Skill Check-off Lists

Chapter 7: References

Price: $59.00

Contact Hour: 1

Course Author

Damion Keith Jenkins

 Damion Jenkins, RN, MSN is the founder and CEO of a nursing education and consultation company - The Nurse Speak, LLC., where he specializes in the delivery of individualized tutoring, mentoring and consultation services for students, new graduate nurses, and healthcare facilities. Damion is also an adjunct nursing professor, an experienced travel nurse, and an active nurse blogger. 

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Course Accreditation

This course provides 1.00 inservice contact hour.

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