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Preventing Skin Breakdown During a Pandemic:

The Best Defense is a Good Offense

December 07, 2020

How do clinicians manage the new challenges for wound care during a pandemic? Join Dr. Jean Cefalu as she discusses how nurses are trying to protect and treat skin breakdown and pressure injuries in post-acute care settings.

In the discussion, Dr Cefalu will:

  • Discuss new challenges wound care nurses arefacing trying to protect and treat skin breakdownand pressure injuries during COVID-19. She willfocus on the post-acute care settings.
  • Differentiate between avoidable and unavoidablepressure injuries during a pandemic.
  • Share evidence based prevention and treatmentplans to meet the needs of post-acute facilitieswith limited resources.

Dr Cefalu will also answer questions in a live Q&A session following the presentation.

Meet the Speaker:

Jean Cefalu PhD, APRN, AGPCNP, CWON

Nurse Practioner Geriatrics and Extended CareSoutheast Louisiana Veterans Health Care SystemAdjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical NursingLSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing


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