Training Program in Nutrition and Wound Healing

Nurse Contact 5.0 CE; Dietitian 5.0 CPEU
This training program will provide an overview on the role of nutrition in wound healing and management. Healthcare professionals will learn about the essential nutrients that support tissue repair, immune function, and overall recovery, as well as practical strategies for integrating nutritional support into patient care.

Enroll in these foundational courses

Enroll in and complete these THREE foundational online self-study courses.

If you’d like, you can also take many of these programs in a group setting. Contact your Abbott representative to schedule a program in your facility. If you need assistance, contact us.

Wound Module 1: A Closer Look: Understanding Chronic Wounds

In this course, Dot Weir, RN, CWON, CWS, will identify the difference between acute and chronic wounds; define common features associated with chronic venous insufficiency, diabetic foot ulcers, and arterial ulcers; review the causes, pathogenic mechanisms, and classifications of wounds; and explore current guidelines for wound assessment, treatment, and prevention. Originally presented as a live webinar on 15 September 2022.

Wound Module 2: Pressure Injuries and the Management of Chronic Wounds

In this course, Dot Weir, RN, CWON, CWS, will define common features associated with pressure injuries; describe the causes, pathogenic mechanisms, and clinical features of various pressure injury classifications; explore current guidelines for assessment, treatment, and prevention of pressure injuries; and discuss opportunities for collaboration between multidisciplinary teams. Originally presented as a live webinar on 15 September 2022.

Wound Module 3: Making the Connection: Chronic Wounds and Nutrition

In this course, Mary Litchford, PhD, RDN, LDN, will explore the role of dietitians in wound care; review current evidence-based nutrition assessment and best practices in identifying nutrition gaps as they relate to chronic wounds; identify key nutrients associated with skin integrity and wound healing; and discuss opportunities for collaboration between multidisciplinary teams using a case study approach. Originally presented as a live webinar on 15 September 2022.

Choose your electives

Select, enroll in, and complete TWO of these electives.

If you’d like, you can also take many of these programs in a group setting. Contact your Abbott representative to schedule a program in your facility. If you need assistance, contact us.

The Interface of Nutrition & Pressure Injury Prevention (Part 1)

This is part 1 of a 2-part course. In this part, Kathleen Vollman, MSN, RN, CCNS, FCNS, FCCM, FAAN, will identify key touch points in risk assessment and the interconnection between the roles of nurses and registered dietitians; and identify protocols and interventions that engage a nutrition-focused multidisciplinary approach to pressure injury prevention. Originally presented live in a webinar series in 2024.

The Interface of Nutrition & Pressure Injury Prevention (Part 2)

This is part 2 of a 2-part course. In this part, Carley Rusch, PhD, RDN, LDN, will discuss current and emerging evidence-based research on the process of wound healing and highlight nutrition interventions to augment wound healing; and distinguish implications for clinical practice and reinforce learnings through clinical case studies. Originally presented live in a webinar series in 2024.

Nutrition and Wounds: Implementing an Evidence-Based Plan of Care

In this course, Nancy Munoz, DCN, MHA, RDN, FAND, and Megan Norwood, MBA, MS, RDN, LD, CNSC will review current evidence-based nutrition care recommendations for the prevention and treatment of Pressure Injuries (PIs); discuss the role and implementation of the newly released Standardized Pressure Injury Prevention Protocol Checklist (SPIPP-Adult) 2.0; describe the process for healthcare professionals to implement nutrition care recommendations into actionable steps and include them as part of a patient plan of care; and more! Originally presented as a live webinar on 23 August 2023.

Nutrition Care for Pressure Injuries: Guidelines to Optimize Outcomes

In this course, Mary Litchford, PhD, RDN, LDN, and Joyce Pittman, PhD, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, CWOCN, FAAN, will identify the role of nutrition in wound healing and nutrition care strategies to enhance recovery in patients with pressure injuries; discuss key nutrition-related care updates from the 2019 Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers/Injuries: Clinical Practice Guidelines; and determine best practices for implementation of the new guidelines. To provide optimal nutrition care in clinical practice. Originally presented as a live webinar on 30 July 2020.

The Role of Nutrition in Pressure Injury Management in Patients with Diabetes

In this course, Joyce Black, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Mary Litchford, PhD, RDN, LDN, will identify evidence-based practices and nationally recognized guidelines for the management of pressure injuries (PIs) as they relate to patients with diabetes; list the key nutrition interventions associated with the management of PIs; review the role of SPIPP-Adult 2.0 in PI management and discuss how implementing nutrition-related protocols can improve patient outcomes. Originally presented live at the ASPEN 2024 Nutrition Science and Practice Conference on 03 March 2024.

Abbott Nutrition’s Provider Statement for Nursing CEs:

Abbott Nutrition Health Institute is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing Provider #CEP 11213.

Abbott Nutrition’s Statement for Dietitian CPEUs:

This educational activity has been prior-approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). CDR credentialed practitioners will receive the specified continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for completion of this program/material.