Free webinar: Skin deep – managing wounds and scabies in the residential care setting
As we age, our skin becomes thinner, loses elasticity and heals at a considerably slower rate. These changes make older individuals especially prone to a number of different skin conditions that normally would not be a serious issue.
A wound is damage that occurs to tissue as the result of some sort of trauma. Properly caring for a wound is an important part of the healing process no matter what your age. However, for an elderly person, proper and effective wound care is critical. Mature skin is at a greater risk for the complications that can arise when a wound is present.
Scabies is a relatively common skin condition in aged residential care facilities. In frail older adults living in aged care, scabies infestations spread quickly and outbreaks are difficult to manage.
In this webinar, the audience will hear about managing wounds in the elderly and diagnosing and managing scabies in an aged residential care setting.
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Anyone who is involved in the care of residents, including:
- nurses
- caregivers
- facility managers
- clinical nurse managers
- general practitioners
- nurse practitioners
- infection prevention and control professionals.
This webinar is free, but registration is essential. To register, click here.
Emil Schmidt, wound clinical nurse specialist
Emil has an extensive background in wound care, general and vascular surgery and intensive care. He is currently a wound care specialist for the Te Whatu Ora Southern district where he is responsible for selecting and evaluating wound products and technology.
Emil will share his expertise in managing wounds in the elderly in an aged residential care setting.
Ben Harris, medical microbiologist scientist
Based in Christchurch, Ben has had an extensive career in the medical microbiology field. He gives many presentations nationally and internationally to multidisciplinary specialty conferences and seminars, as well as to community groups, GPs, specialists, rest homes and primary health organisations Aotearoa-wide via video link.
Ben’s primary focus, fascination and passion are in medical microbiology including infection prevention and control through education, vaccination, transmission cessation approaches; when prevention is too late; managing outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics; the use and role of antibiotics; and the effect antibiotics have on our health, particularly our microbial microbiome.
In this webinar Ben will share his knowledge about diagnosing and managing scabies.
Please email ipc@hqsc.govt.nz with any questions about this event.
Ben Harris presentation slides (2.4MB, pdf)
Ben Harris has provided some useful fact sheets related to his talk on scabies:
- Arachnitis (scabies) general information for patients (121KB, pdf)
- Scabies clinical reality scenarios - the significant cost of misdiagnosis (585KB, pdf)
- Scabies or arachnitis? (775KB, pdf)
- Scabies pictorial (830KB, pdf)
Who should attend?
Anyone who is involved in the care of residents, including:
- nurses
- caregivers
- facility managers
- clinical nurse managers
- general practitioners
- nurse practitioners
- infection prevention and control professionals.
Cost and registration
This webinar is free, but registration is essential. To register, click here.
Our speakers
Emil Schmidt, wound clinical nurse specialist
Emil has an extensive background in wound care, general and vascular surgery and intensive care. He is currently a wound care specialist for the Te Whatu Ora Southern district where he is responsible for selecting and evaluating wound products and technology.
Emil will share his expertise in managing wounds in the elderly in an aged residential care setting.
Ben Harris, medical microbiologist scientist
Based in Christchurch, Ben has had an extensive career in the medical microbiology field. He gives many presentations nationally and internationally to multidisciplinary specialty conferences and seminars, as well as to community groups, GPs, specialists, rest homes and primary health organisations Aotearoa-wide via video link.
Ben’s primary focus, fascination and passion are in medical microbiology including infection prevention and control through education, vaccination, transmission cessation approaches; when prevention is too late; managing outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics; the use and role of antibiotics; and the effect antibiotics have on our health, particularly our microbial microbiome.
In this webinar Ben will share his knowledge about diagnosing and managing scabies.
More information
Please email ipc@hqsc.govt.nz with any questions about this event.
Related resources
Ben Harris presentation slides (2.4MB, pdf)
Ben Harris has provided some useful fact sheets related to his talk on scabies:
- Arachnitis (scabies) general information for patients (121KB, pdf)
- Scabies clinical reality scenarios - the significant cost of misdiagnosis (585KB, pdf)
- Scabies or arachnitis? (775KB, pdf)
- Scabies pictorial (830KB, pdf)