PERIOPERATIVE NURSING

Burns: Wound Care and Pain Management

A clinical tutorial on multimodal pain management, surgical evaluation of burn
wounds, and nutritional support for wound healing.
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  • 1 hour 45 minutes
  • Shareable Certificate
  • Expert discussion

Course description 

In this course, the learner will be able to understand and identify different types of pain and approaches to manage pain in the setting of burn injury. Learners will also be able to understand options available for burn excision and reconstruction and important principles of post-operative care to support wound healing.
Reviewed by SURGhub, February 2024

This course is provided by:

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  • Specialty: Perioperative Nursing 
  • Target audience: Practicing medical professionals including nurses, advanced
    practice providers, physicians, and surgeons.
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Language: English
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Learning objectives

  • Describe different types of pain
  • Identify multimodal approaches to pain management
  • Understand the process by which burns are evaluated for surgical management and basic tenets of burn surgery
  • Describe characteristics of burns that require surgical management
  • Describe characteristics of burns that will heal without intervention
  • Understand the importance of nutritional support and nutritional intake in burn wound healing
  • Calculate caloric needs of adults and children and how these needs change in the setting of burn injury

Course structure 

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Course instructor

Susan Smith

Susan Smith PhD, APRN-C is a nurse practitioner at the Warden Burn Center at Orlando Health, one of only five burn centers in the state of Florida. She has a PhD in health science and has over a decade of experience working with ReSurge International.
Susan Smith

Susan Smith

Nurse practitioner
Warden Burn Center at Orlando Health

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ReSurge International

Resurge International is a nonprofit organization based in Sunnyvale, California established in 1969. ReSurge focuses on scaling up access to reconstructive surgical care in low-income countries by training and funding the next generation of reconstructive surgeons across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. ReSurge is one of the few organizations to address the full scope of reconstructive surgical care to those most in need. They pair 50 years of experience with an innovative localization and empowerment model that is creating a ripple-effect of impact across economies, communities, and human lives.

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