Advancing Wound Care: An Exploration of Innovations in Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT)

 NSWOCC & WOC Institute Continuing Education Webinar: Advancing Wound Care: An Exploration of Innovations in Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT)

Learning Objectives

1. Review innovations in NPWT and NPWTi-d, including advanced dressing materials
2. Explore how to properly select and apply NPWT for different types of wounds
3. Examine the latest research and clinical outcomes associated with NPWT and NPWTi-d
4. Discuss the role of NPWT in wound care management and its integration with other modalities
5. Address the role of the interdisciplinary team in NPWT treatment and continuity of care
6. Participate in a question-and-answer session

Presented by 

Elizabeth Faust, MSN, CRNP, CSWS, CWOCN-AP, MAPWCA

Tower Health System 

West Reading, PA

Liz Faust is a Nurse Practitioner and Wound, Ostomy, and Continence specialist at Tower Health System in West Reading, PA. She graduated from Gwynedd Mercy University with her MSN in Adult Nurse Practitioner in 2009. She is a Certified Skin and Wound Specialist (CSWS) and Certified Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurse, Advanced Practice (CWOCN-AP). Her role currently is to serve a 5-hospital health system administratively and clinically for wound, ostomy and continence needs in addition to heading the soft tissue department under plastic surgery at Reading Hospital.  Prior to this role, she has also served as in-patient WOCN specialist for a 700+-bed Level I Trauma Center, focusing care with the OR, ICU, Trauma and oncology units and served as a Nurse practitioner in an outpatient wound care center. She has a passion for education, particularly with NPWT and Pressure injury prevention and management. She has lectured nationally, in addition to facilitating Bioskills labs across the country.  She serves as a co host for an educational channel for wound care clinicians called The Frank & Lizzie Show.  She also serves as the Vice President of the American Professional Wound Care Association (APWCA) and Treasurer of the local affiliate of the Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurses Society (WOCN).

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