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Palliative Wound Care: Principles and Practice Micro-Learning Flight
This educational activity is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of healthcare professionals in managing wounds within hospice and palliative care settings. Participants will explore the unique challenges associated with limited access to specialized wound care services and learn to apply evidence-informed, patient-centered strategies that prioritize comfort and quality of life.
The micro-learning modules provide focused instruction on the assessment and management of common wound-related symptoms, including pain, odor, exudate, pruritus, bleeding, and infection. The activity also emphasizes clinical decision-making related to wound healing potential—healable, maintenance, and non-healable—and the development of individualized care plans that align with patients' goals and needs.
By promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and effective communication, this activity supports improved care coordination and outcomes in the context of palliative wound care.
PLEASE READ: This activity is repurposed from the live 2024 Intensive Review Course and On-Demand Intensive Review Course. If you have accessed and claimed your CE credit prior, you cannot claim credit again.
Target Audience
Hospice Medical Directors
HPM Physicians
Nurses
Nurse Practitioners
Pharmacists
PAs
Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of this micro-learning flight series, learners will self-report the ability to:
- Critically evaluate the clinical and systemic barriers to providing wound care in hospice and palliative care settings, especially in resource-limited environments.
- Synthesize clinical data and patient context to classify wounds as healable, maintenance, or non-healable, and justify corresponding treatment strategies.
- Design and adapt personalized interventions to manage wound-related symptoms (e.g., pain, odor, exudate, pruritus, bleeding, infection) based on current evidence and patient goals.
- Develop and revise individualized wound care plans that align with palliative care principles and engage patients and families in shared decision-making.
- Lead and facilitate effective interdisciplinary collaboration to improve care coordination, communication, and continuity in the management of complex wounds.
Disclosures
AAHPM endorses the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Standards for disclosure and commercial support and endeavors to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor for all accredited products or programs. All who are in a position to control or influence the content of an educational activity must disclose any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*Disclosure documents were reviewed for potential conflicts of interest and, if identified, were resolved prior to confirmation of participation. Only those who had no conflict of interest or who agreed to an identified resolution process prior to their participation were involved in this activity.
All editors, faculty and staff have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
*An ineligible company is defined as any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.
Faculty
Myra Varnado, BS RN CWON CFCN
Staff
Leah Farfan, BA
Emily Geary, BA
Julie Tanner, BSN RN-BC CHPN
Laura Witt, MS-HSM
Julie Bruno, MSW LCSW
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion includes attesting to meaningful activity participation and completion/submission of activity evaluation within the time frame designated.
Evaluation period closes March 30, 2028 at 11:59pm CT for claiming CME credit.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Recognition Statement
Through the American Board of Medical Specialties (“ABMS”) ongoing commitment to increase access to practice relevant Continuing Certification Activities through the ABMS Continuing Certification Directory, Palliative Wound Care: Principles and Practice Micro-Learning Flight (apply toward general CME requirement) for the following ABMS Member Boards:
• Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 3.25 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.
• Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program.
It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM or ABP MOC credit. By submitting your evaluation, you grant AAHPM permission to submit completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting respective BOARD MOC program credit or points as applicable. De-identified aggregated data from the evaluation may be used for research and/or publication and will conform to generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection and analysis where indicated.
Evaluation period closes March 30, 2028 at 11:59pm CT for claiming MOC credit.
Available Credit
- 3.25 ABIM MOC
- 3.25 ABS MOC
- 3.25 CME (physician only)
- 3.25 Participation