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PRELIMINARY EVENT SCHEDULE

WOCNext® 2021: A Virtual WOW Experience with the WOCN® Society and Relias is an educational event for WOC nurses and other healthcare professionals dedicated to providing expert care to patients with wound, ostomy, and incontinence needs. With more than 40 speakers and over 30 sessions to choose from, attendees will leave WOCNext 2021 with diverse knowledge and insights into how to best identify, care for, and overcome some of the most challenging issues facing their patient populations.

The education at WOCNext will be presented under the following trending healthcare themes:

  • Wellness: Behaviors, actions and interventions to promote health and well-being.
  • Symptom Science: Understanding pathophysiology and manifestations of acute and chronic illness.
  • Quality: Measures of patient-centered, safe, effective, timely, efficient and equitable care.
  • Clinical Care Innovations: Advancing practice through the integration of education and research.

Click on the buttons below to view a sneak peek of this year's exciting schedule* by day. Check back soon for additional updates! 
*This is a Preliminary Event Schedule. Session titles, descriptions, and speakers are all subject to change by the WOCN Society.

THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY

Thursday, June 24, 9:00 AM EDT - 9:30 AM EDT

Grand Opening

Thursday, June 24, 9:30 AM EDT - 10:30 AM EDT

(GS1) General Session - Opening Keynote: Adaptive Resilience

Thursday, June 24, 10:45 AM EDT

(200) Pharmacologic Management of Patients with Lower Urinary Tract & Bowel Elimination Dysfunction

(201) Optimizing Care When Wounds Won't Heal

(202) Differentiating COVID-19 Cutaneous Lesions from Deep Tissue Pressure Injury: The Evidence from the Consensus Study in Spain

(203) Body Wisdom: How Biologic Embedding of Childhood Adversity Impacts Adult GI and GU Health

Thursday, June 24, 12:00 PM EDT

(S01) Know about the Flow: Pathophysiology, Monitoring and Management of Patients with High-Output Ileostomies

(S02) What's Technology Got To Do With It?

(S03) Protecting the Skin They’re In: What’s New in IAD, MARSI and MDRPI

Thursday, June 24, 1:30 PM EDT

(204) Nutrition and Wound Healing

(205) Systemic Symptoms of IBD

(206) Successful Transitions of Care: Wound, Ostomy and Continence Supplies

(207) Diabetic Foot Ulcer Updates: Amputation Prevention through Appropriate Interdisciplinary Care and Treatment

Thursday, June 24, 2:45 PM EDT - 3:45 PM EDT

(GS2) General Session - The BUZZ Report

Thursday, June 24, 3:45 PM EDT - 6:15 PM EDT

Exhibit Hall Open

Thursday, June 24, 4:30 PM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT

(IH01) How Technology Can Enable Remote Patient Monitoring and so Extend Patient Care from the Hospital to the Home

Thursday, June 24, 5:00 PM EDT - 5:30 PM EDT

(IH02) Juven®: Why It Matters for Wound Healing

Thursday, June 24, 5:30 PM EDT - 6:00 PM EDT

(IH03) Healthcare is Changing. Has Your NPWT Evolved?

Thursday, June 24, 6:15 PM EDT

(S04) Adapting to Change: New Perspectives in Wound Healing During COVID-19 and Implementing New Clinical Data and Technologies for Efficient Patient Care

(S05) Wound Management is No Longer Just About Wounds: Many Stakeholders, Many Settings, Many Constraints

(S06) COVID-19 and the Impact on Ostomy Care Through the Lens of WOC Nurses Across the Country

Friday, June 25, 7:30 AM EDT - 8:45 AM EDT

(EMS01) Early Morning Seminar: Compression Wrapping

Friday, June 25, 9:00 AM EDT

(S07) The Dream is Free; The Hustle is Individually Provided: Personal and Professional Empowerment - Strategies for Success

(S08) Don’t Forget the Basics: Every Piece of the Ostomy Assessment Counts!

(S09) Getting to Healing: A Multi-Modal Approach to the Treatment of Venous Leg Ulcers

Friday, June 25, 10:30 AM EDT - 11:30 AM EDT

(GS3) General Session - Peristomal Skin Health: A WOCN Society Consensus Conference

Friday, June 25, 11:45 AM EDT

(300) Racial Disparities and Limb Salvage

(301) Biologics & Immunotherapy: What You Should Know

(302) How to Accept No for an Answer: When the Competent Patient Refuses Nursing Care

(303) Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection (NSTI): Road to Recovery Utilizing a Power Plan Pathway

Friday, June 25, 1:00 PM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT

(GS4) General Session - What's Next in Research: Abstract Presentations (Poster Merit Awards)

Friday, June 25, 2:00 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT

Exhibit Hall Open

Friday, June 25, 2:30 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT

(IH04) Pressure Injury Prevention and Easing the Patient Transition from the Acute to Post-Acute Setting

Friday, June 25, 3:00 PM EDT - 3:30 PM EDT

(IH05) A Two-Piece Revolution for Stomas: The Flexible, Soft Convex Barrier infused with Ceramide

Friday, June 25, 3:30 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT

(IH06) Maintaining Skin Integrity During Proning of Patients with Sars CoV-2 (Covid 19)

Friday, June 25, 4:30 PM EDT

(304) Interstitial Space: The Final Frontier. Discover Why Your Venous Wounds May Not be Healing

(306) Practice & Clinical Pearls for Bladder and Bowel Management Outside of the Continence Clinic

(307) Neonatal Wound Care 2021: Are We There Yet?

Friday, June 25, 4:30 PM EDT - 6:00 PM EDT

(305) Bariatric Care Across the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Spectrum

Friday, June 25, 5:45 PM EDT

(308) How to Start and Grow a Foot Care Program with Focus on Falls and Wound Prevention

(310) Telehealth: Solutions and Future Trends

(311) Ostomy Dilemmas: Relocate, Revise, Reverse?

Friday, June 25, 6:15 PM EDT - 6:45 PM EDT

(309) Caring for Malignant Wounds: What's the Microbiome Got to Do With It?

Friday, June 25, 6:45 PM EDT - 8:00 PM EDT

Networking Event

Saturday, June 26, 7:30 AM EDT - 8:45 AM EDT

(EMS02) Early Morning Seminar: Basic Ostomy Management: From Surgery to Success

Saturday, June 26, 9:00 AM EDT

(S10) Real Life, Real Improvements: The Challenge of Preventing Pressure Injuries and Managing Wounds During Covid-19 Pandemic

(S11) Soft Convexity: Is it the Panacea for all Stomas? An International Panel Perspective

(S12) Optimizing Healing in Chronic Wounds from Head to Toe with the Help of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy

Saturday, June 26, 10:30 AM EDT - 11:30 AM EDT

(GS5) General Session - Cracking the Codes on MASD

Saturday, June 26, 11:30 AM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT

Exhibit Hall Open

Saturday, June 26, 11:45 AM EDT - 12:15 PM EDT

(IH07) Pressure Injury: With Focus on Prevention, is Quality Treatment Overlooked?

Saturday, June 26, 12:15 PM EDT - 12:45 PM EDT

(IH08) Silicone Foam Dressings to Prevent Deep Tissue Injury

Saturday, June 26, 12:45 PM EDT - 1:15 PM EDT

(IH09) Clinical Considerations for Antimicrobial Protection of Surgical Devices and Intravascular Catheters

Saturday, June 26, 1:15 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT

(IH10) Changing Patient Outcomes with Incontinence Detection

Saturday, June 26, 2:00 PM EDT

(401) Sexuality & Aging

(402) Quality of Life and Long Term Outcomes in Individuals with Urinary Diversions

(403) Getting it Right: Identifying Lower Extremity Ulcers

(404) Ostomy Case Presentations Across the Continuum: Audience Discussion

Saturday, June 26, 3:15 PM EDT - 4:15 PM EDT

(GS6) General Session - Not All Abuse Leaves Bruises: Social Bullying in Academic and Clinical Nursing: Implications for a Healthy Workplace

Saturday, June 26, 4:15 PM EDT - 5:15 PM EDT

(GS7) General Session - A Conversation to Motivate Smart Talk: Patient Perspective to Engage the WOC Nurse

Saturday, June 26, 5:15 PM EDT - 5:30 PM EDT

Grand Finale

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