Building your independent foot care nursing practice?
As a foot care nurse, you want to help people. But before you hit the ground running with your foot care nursing practice, you might need some help creating the policies and procedures that will allow you to build your practice and help your patients safely and effectively.
CREATE POLICIES & PROCEDURES
You’re an amazing nurse and you want to set up your own foot care nursing practice so that you can provide care on your terms.
The thing is, as a nurse, you’ve always been focused on actually providing care to patients, not writing out the rules , instructions and laws that govern this care. You know how to provide great nursing foot care. The only thing standing in the way of setting up your own practice is building the framework on which your whole practice will rest - the policies and procedures.
Look to the future…
You have a successful nursing foot care practice. Why? Because you’re a great nurse. But it’s also because the entire practice is governed by thorough and effective policies and procedures that ensure that everything associated with your practice runs smoothly, safely, and effectively.
Policies and Procedures for Foot Care Nurses
Having consistent policies and procedures allows you to follow the Infection prevention and control (IPC) protective practices that mitigate the risk of transmission of infection. The key to implementing effective IPC in community health care settings is to ensure that all personnel are trained, knowledgeable and skilled in IPC best practices including the safe reprocessing of semi-critical and critical medical devices.
This self-paced online training course provides theory, principles and practical information about developing and maintaining policies and procedures which meet the standards of the legislature and national guidelines
In this course, you’ll learn how to write policies and procedures so that you can build your successful foot care nursing practice.
There are four modules which will cover the content of a policy and procedure manual including how to do reviews. The resources required to develop your manual. As well as a detailed look at the checklists and directives that impact the best practice guidelines for your practice.
This course includes the Medical Device Reprocessing - Community Health Care setting training lessons with an additional lesson for those with specific reprocessing needs for foot care.
The online training course includes a variety of online lessons with audio and visual material as well as a document library with links to relevant PDF reading material and online self-assessment quizzes. Upon conclusion of the online course, and successful completion of course quizzes, participants will receive a record of course completion.
- Gain an understanding of policy and procedure writing best practices
- Have a checklist given to you to meet IPAC standards for your policies
- Easily make it through the seemingly daunting task of writing your policies and procedures in a clear and systematic approach
- Build a template that can be used to write effective and clear instructions for every part of your business practices
- Enhance existing practical and hands-on skills to increase efficiency and effectiveness of clinical procedures
- Understand and apply theory and principles related to decontamination, assembly, sterilization and storage, and distribution in medical device reprocessing as per IPAC guidelines
- Develop robust procedures to support best practices in patient care quality assurance
- Know the documents that detail the gold standards of patient safety, occupational health and safety, risk management and the prevention of infections
Course Curriculum
What Our Graduates Are Saying
I would not change anything, this is my best investment to date, contributing towards continuing education.
I have a learning disability related to a medical condition however, Soft Soles provided accommodations to facilitate my specific learning needs resulting in the successful completion of the Foot Care Nurse Policies and Procedures Course.
Policies and Procedures For Foot Care Nurses
Create the robust policies and procedures based on evidence based practice that you will need to operate your foot Business. *NEW* Pandemic Planning sections.
Your investment in this course will save you countless hours and headaches from trying to navigate the policy writing process on your own. The course can be completed in between 2-4 hours
For just $100.00, you will gain the knowledge and skills you need to effectively write the policies and procedures that will form the base for your entire business.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Hi, I'm Michelle De Grandmont: RPN, Foot Care Nurse Educator.
I'm a bilingual registered nurse. I have taken advanced diabetic foot care nurse training. My work experience includes over 15 years of experience in gerontology, acute care medicine, diabetes, and holistic healing modalities. I was an educator at Algonquin College, where I developed an innovative and highly successful advanced diabetic foot care program. With the closing of the Algonquin program in 2018, Foot Canada Training partnered with me to lead their Ottawa Foot Care Nurse Clinical courses and advanced skills workshops.
In 2021, I became the Assistant Director of Nursing and am eagerly looking forward to impacting nursing education and curriculum standards. I'm a frequent motivational speaker on best practice adherence in nursing foot care and I work hard to keep the best practices in the community and advancing foot care nursing as a specialty. I'm an advisor for The Canadian Association of Foot Care Nurses, where I've worked on the development of the National Foot Care Nurse Competencies Document and The Education Initiative.
I'm looking forward to connecting with you!
