Wound Care Essentials for the Hand Therapist

Saturday, March 20, 2021


10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Pacific Time

Topic: This lecture will review wound healing phases, wound bed characteristics to identify healing and non-healing traits as well as descriptors for documentation, the infection continuum, goals in wound healing, appropriate wound dressings, and cases to illustrate and demonstrate key points.

Presenter: Nora Barrett, MS, OTR/L, CHT, WCC

CEU: 2 contact hours

This event is an online webinar.

Cost:
FREE for 2021 HTA-CA members
$30 for non-members

RSVP deadline: Thursday 03/18/2021, 10PM PST

Registration for this course is now closed.

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Nora Barrett MS, OTR/L, CHT, WCC: Has been a practicing occupational therapist since 1998 and a certified hand therapist since 2006. She spent her early career as an inpatient therapist at rehabilitation centers, acute care hospitals and burn units in Boston, MA and Washington, DC before focusing in outpatient hands in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD. Nora moved to Bend, OR in 2014 and continues an outpatient hand therapy practice. She received her Wound Care Certification in 2020 and is an active member of ASHT and AAHS. She lectures routinely in wound care, burn therapy, trauma and peripheral nerve injury for ASHT, AAHS and various universities across the country.