PAWSIC
The Assessment-Action Blueprint
for Transforming Post-Acute Wound Care Prevention & Care
The Assessment-Action Blueprint for Transforming Post-Acute Wound Care Prevention & Care -Overview
Our wound prevention and management program moves beyond traditional education to provide a rigorous roadmap for clinical and operational excellence. By combining live insights from a national multidisciplinary panel with proprietary tools like the PAWSIC.org Center Self-Assessment and Intervention Guides, we empower your team to pinpoint systemic gaps and implement measurable process improvements. The ultimate takeaway is a transformed culture of care: one that replaces reactive treatment with proactive prevention, ensuring your center is armed with the expert resources and strategic framework necessary to move the needle toward a ‘365 survey-strong’ skin health excellence!
You will walk away with a clear, repeatable approach your team can use across the Post Acute Settings (SNF/LTC/other), across team members, across shifts, and overtime, using a QAPI approach to continuously strengthen wound prevention and management program.
Benefits, what’s in it for you
- Gain direct access to a multidisciplinary panel of leaders, including a Medical Director, PT, and RN, for a high-impact "Live Launch" event.
- Access all training sessions virtually from January to May to accommodate 24/7 facility schedules.
- Earn CE/CME credits for RNs and Providers, plus Certificates of Completion for all participating team members.
- Receive PAWSIC.org membership with exclusive access to the Center Self-Assessment Tool, Wound Rounds Guide, and Intervention Guide.
- Move beyond basic care to identify systemic gaps and build a customized Process Improvement Plan (PIP) with measurable goals.
FORMAT
- Enduring recorded session available Jan-May 2026
- Duration: Up to 2 hours
- Join from your facility (individuals or groups- including but not limited to Medical Directors, Director of Nursing, Administrators, Infection Control Specialists, MDS coordinators, Risk Managers, Skin Health Leads, Wound Nurses, RNs, LPNs, PTs, and others
Certificate of completion provided per individual
The first 10 centers who register will be awarded with full access to Healiant Wound Hero program for one year for all of their clinical staff, a $1,500 value per site, free of charge.
Learning Objectives
After participating, learners will be able to:
- Explain why skin health and wounds reflect a center's overall health, including key drivers and common risk factors in post-acute settings.
- Describe a systems approach (policy, metrics, leadership, culture) to complete a center-level assessment of wound prevention and care.
- Apply patient-centered early detection practices, including respectful skin checks, appropriate risk assessment timing, and expectation setting with patients and families.
- Relate interdisciplinary team dynamics by clarifying roles and improving communication across shifts and disciplines.
- Describe a gap analysis using audits, wound logs, documentation review, and key quality indicators (including Section M and relevant QMs).
- Describe an improved documentation system for new wounds and discharge by identifying wound type, contributing comorbidities/labs/history, onset details, and healing barriers, including considerations for medically unavoidable skin/wounds.
- Develop an action plan using patient-centered, team, product, and human-centered process interventions, then set measurable SMART goals and audit for improvement.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Penn State College of Medicine and Post Acute Wound & Skin Integrity Council (PAWSIC).
Penn State College of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Penn State College of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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