Accelerating Wound Care Competency Development, Management and Documentation

Although wound care clinicians are in high demand and have extensive training, their training and backgrounds can be diverse, which can lead to inconsistent care and poor outcomes. A poster presented at SAWC Spring solution to overcome obstacles in wound care competency development, management, and documentation.
 
The authors used the Design Thinking methodology to create a solution as a module within a clinical/reimbursement decision support web-application for wound care/hyperbaric clinicians. The module is a cloud-based, mobile-responsive solution that allows programs to build their own customized competencies or implement standard role-specific wound care competency templates to onboard/train staff and manage clinician’s competencies.
 
Managers/clinicians’ needs and role-based competency areas in wound care were mapped, notes the poster. The module was developed with robust programming language, library, and framework. Use cases were prioritized; workflows were designed. Evidence-based competency templates were created within the module. User feedback was incorporated.
 
The authors reported user benefits including care standardization, increased efficiency in employee onboarding/orientation, and ability to track competencies for employee development, licensure, certification and facility accreditation.
 
Poster reference: Song EH, Milne CT, Mazuz R, Scheiner E, Hamm T, Mize J. Accelerating wound care competency development, management and documentation. Poster PI-003. Presented at Symposium on Advanced Wound Care Spring, April 6–9, 2022, Phoenix, AZ.

– Brian McCurdy, Managing Editor of Today's Wound Clinic