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Four Course Options

OSC Core

$229

Online Course Access Forever
15.0 Total CE Credits
Mp3 Course Audio
Mp4 Course Video (1080p)
Course Workbook

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OSC Core Deluxe

$299

Online Course Access Forever
15.0 Total CE Credits
Mp3 Course Audio
Mp4 Course Video (1080p)
Course Workbook
PLUS
Practice Suture Kit:
- (8) Practice sutures (various line and needle sizes)
- (1) Skin stapler (35 wide staples)
- (1) Skin staple remover
- (1) Laceration tray
- Heavy-duty kit container

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OSC Nomad

$239

Entire Course on USB Thumb Drive
PLUS
Online Course Access Forever
15.0 Total CE Credits
Mp3 Course Audio
Mp4 Course Video (1080p)
Course Workbook

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OSC Nomad Deluxe

$319

Entire Course on USB Thumb Drive
PLUS
Online Course Access Forever
15.0 Total CE Credits
Mp3 Course Audio
Mp4 Course Video (1080p)
Course Workbook
PLUS
Practice Suture Kit:
- (8) Practice sutures (various line and needle sizes)
- (1) Skin stapler (35 wide staples)
- (1) Skin staple remover
- (1) Laceration tray
- Heavy-duty kit container

Buy OSC Nomad Deluxe

80% of Advanced Practice Providers receive minimal training in suturing and wound repair.

OSC bridges this gap between training and practice.

11 Closure Methods

You will learn the proper way to perform the following closure techniques:

Steri-Strips
Skin Adhesive
Skin Stapling
Simple Interrupted
Simple Continuous
Horizontal Mattress
Vertical Mattress
Interrupted Cruciate
Corner Stitch
Running Locking
Dog Ear Deformity Correction
Multi-Layer Closure

10 Exciting Case Studies

Anti-coagulated geriatric versus rusty attic nail
Histrionic 4-year old chin versus floor
Hunter versus his own finger
Dizzied middle-age ear versus night-stand
Heavy-weight walker’s knee versus the track
Inebriated toe versus some rocks
Strapping lad’s lower leg versus the farm
Pediatric scalp versus coffee table
Middle-aged scalp (and c-spine) versus the dangers of living by yourself in middle age
Living room dancer’s buttocks versus (again) coffee table

3 Anesthesia Approaches

Local Infiltration
Digital Block
Field Block

ENP Credit Hours

This course provides 15.0 of 30 contact hours required by the AAENP under Option 1 for the ENP certification exam.

A.C.E. F.A.S.T. Closure Method

Learn to ace your closures every time through the A.C.E. F.A.S.T. Closure Method. This method, developed by OSC creator Patton Graham, will improve your throughput times, bolster your medicolegal defensibility, enhance your charting, and fortify your patient outcomes.

34 Learning Modules

When and When Not to Close
The A.C.E. F.A.S.T. Closure® Method
Proper Anesthesia Delivery
Proper Wound Cleansing
Proper Wound Examination
Foreign Body Removal
Antibiotic Appropriateness
When to Seek Surgical Consultation
Current Tetanus Guidelines
Closure Basics Including Line and Needle Selection
Proper Knot Tying
Left-handed suturing
Repair of Torso Lacerations
Repair of Extremity Lacerations
Repair of Head and Neck Lacerations
Repair of Scalp Lacerations
Repair of Eyelid Lacerations
Repair of Ear Lacerations
Repair of Lip Lacerations
Repair of Nailbed Lacerations
Repair of Flap Lacerations
Repair of Buccal Lacerations
Repair of Tongue Lacerations
Repair of Joint Capsule Lacerations
Nail Trephination
Dog Ear Deformity Correction
Undermining
Multi-layer Suturing
SPECIAL TOPIC: Treatment of Animal Bites
SPECIAL TOPIC: Treatment of Open Fractures
SPECIAL TOPIC: Pediatric Lacerations
SPECIAL TOPIC: Lacerations in the Anticoagulated Patient
SPECIAL TOPIC: Managing Poorly Healing Lacerations
SPECIAL TOPIC: C-spine Management and Imaging Related to Traumatic Head and Neck Lacerations
BONUS: Appropriate Follow-up Care
BONUS: Medicolegal Tips and Nuggets

SAMPLE VIDEO LESSON

HORIZONTAL MATTRESS SUTURE

What Your Peers Are Saying

I’m an ED doc for 21 years now. I did not expect this course to teach me anything. I was wrong. Maybe that says something about me … maybe it says something about the course. I recommend it.

– J. D. C.

Really great course.

– Wes Smith, FNP-BC

Patton’s teaching style is alert, positive, and to the point. I’m looking forward to the other courses he comes up with.

– Nora Vince, NP-C

School rotations included some surgical technique and I remembered some of it. What I learned from this course has improved my practice, and I’m grateful.

– John Birch, PA-C

Finally, a suture course worth the effort, money, time, all of it. I will be reviewing my notes from this course daily, as I practice in an emergency department and close a lot of lacerations.

– Bill Crandall, FNP

I flew through the course. Loved it.

– Bethany H.

We will recommend this course to our next round of students. Totally gets it right. Well put together and the value was completely there. Evidence based practice through-and-through.

– Carson Smith-Weathers, ENP, MHA

Everything I never knew I needed to know. Wow!

– Melanie Thomas, NP

Learn multiple techniques for simple and complex closures

Steri-strips
Skin Adhesive
Staples
Simple Interrupted
Simple Continuous
Horizontal Mattress
Vertical Mattress
Interrupted Cruciate
Corner Stitch
Running Locking
Dog Ear Deformity Correction
Multi-layer Closure

Discussion of Medicolegal Implications and Pitfalls

Defensive charting tips
What to verbalize to your patients (or their parents)
Essential discharge instructions
Avoiding common pitfalls that could result in lawsuit
Discussion of the most important way to avoid being sued

An Entire Module on Pediatric Lacerations

Dealing with kids and their parents
Building rapport with your pediatric patient
Pediatric analgesia tips
Pediatric moderate sedation procedures
Pediatric case studies

Extensive Anesthesia and Pharmacology Discussion

Local infiltration
Digital blocks
Field blocks
Moderate sedation with ketamine and midazolam
Amide family (the “caines”) anesthetics

More Reasons to Buy the Course

Regardless of your level of experience with wound closure and care, OSC will enhance your skill set in the areas of suturing, stapling, gluing, and managing simple to complex lacerations. You will learn when to seek surgical consultation, how to deal with animal bites, when not to close a wound, and much more.

Online access makes learning and earning much easier. OSC is a fully online, asynchronous suture training course. This puts you in the driver’s seat for deciding when and where to enrich your practice. It also puts the captain’s hat squarely on your brow for deciding at what pace you earn CME credit.

High-definition video makes learning very real-to-life. Using state-of-the-art, high-definition video technology, OSC brings you right to the heart of the wound and guides you through repairs every step of the way. You will learn, with crystal clarity, how to repair lacerations using simple interrupted, interrupted cruciate, running-locking, vertical mattress, and many more techniques. You will learn how to tie knots correctly. You will learn essentially everything there is to know about wound repair.

Accredited CE. The OSC Suture Training Course is approved for 15.0 contact hour(s) of continuing education by the American Academy of Physician Assistants. The American Association of Nurse Practitioners and the American Nurses Credentialing Association both accept AAPA CME credit hours.

Learn from an experienced family and emergency nurse practitioner. With years of experience as an emergency department provider, as well as collegiate level teaching experience, Patton is able to quickly explain, demonstrate, and prepare you to emulate simple and complex techniques, as well as fully enhance your current level of practice and understanding. He’s also a real person and makes learning fun.

Not a bare-bones essentials course. OSC will bring you to the front of your field in suture repair. OSC is a head-to-toe suture training course and will fully enhance your practice of wound closure.

Your charting will never be the same. OSC is full of high-yield MEDICOLEGAL NUGGETS and advises you on what to chart, and when to chart it. Your clinical documentation will improve. Your patient outcomes will improve. And, your foundation for medicolegal defense will be enhanced.

Learn suturing through the A.C.E. F.A.S.T. Closure® method. Developed by Patton Graham, NP-C, the A.C.E. F.A.S.T. Closure® method will help you ace your closures every time. This method-approach to wound closure will surprise you at how easy it is to both remember and implement.

OSC Expert Faculty

Patton Graham, NP-C, EMT
Patton is a family and emergency nurse practitioner. He is a member of the American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. He earned his B.S. (sociology) in 2005 from the University of North Alabama, his A.S. (nursing) in 2012 from Columbia State Community College, and his M.S. (nursing) in 2015 from Tennessee State University. He completed his emergency nurse residency in 2012 at Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital in Nashville, TN.

Patton practices in both emergency departments and acute care clinics. Patton has taught at the collegiate level and has also taught suture training courses, wound repair, and procedural processes in a variety of clinical settings.

LIVE COURSES

Upcoming Live Course

LACS - Live Advanced Course in Suturing

Join Patton Graham, NP-C in Nashville, TN for LACS September 12-13, 2019

LACS is the in-person, hands-on version of the popular Online Suture Course and teaches 11 closure techniques each with a hands-on practice session, 3 anesthesia approaches, and covers 33 topics (see details below). Total session time for this continuing education conference is 12 hours, with 8 session hours on day 1, and 4 session hours on day 2, providing you with either an early departure or some additional free time in Nashville.

AANP Accredited CE: 12.0 contact hours including 2.0 pharmacology hours

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Dermatology Training Course for NPs and PAs

Fundamentals

When to cut
How to cut
When to treat with antibiotics

Hands-On Modules

Incision and drainage practice
Ultrasound assessment of abscesses
Biopsies
- Punch
- Skin tag and mole removal
- Basic pathology

Topics

Measles
Scarlet Fever
Rubella
Filatow-Dukes
Erythema Infectiosum
Roseola Infantum
Shingles
Chicken Pox
Molloscum Contagiosum
Hand-Foot-Mouth
Impetigo
Felon
Paronychia
General Cutaneous Abscesses
Herpetic Whitlow
Folliculitis
Axillary (hidradenitis)
Pilonidal abscess versus cyst
Acne
Peritonsillar abscess
Neck abscess
Bartholin cyst versus abscess
Peraspinal abscess
Dental abscess
Breast abscess
Parotitis
Easiest Rash Algorithm Ever
Pediatrics
- Scarlet Fever
- Reyes
- Kawasaki
Eczema
- Dishidrosis
- Discoid
- Food allergy related
Psoriasis
- Plaque
- Systemic
Pytiriasis Rosea
The Tineas
Intertrigo
Lympangitis
Erysipelas
Rhus dermatitis (poison ivy)
Ganglion cyst
Sebaceous cyst
Baker’s cyst
Pilar cyst

Dermatology Training Course for NPs and PAs

Join Patton Graham, NP-C in Nashville, TN for ARC Live, a totally awesome live training course for abscess incision and drainage, training using ultrasound for abscess assessment, and biopsy excision training. Total session time for this continuing education conference is 12 hours, with 8 session hours on day 1, and 4 session hours on day 2, providing you with either an early departure or some additional free time in Nashville.

12.0 AAPA Accredited Continuing Medical Education contact hours
Course supplies (I&D Kit, abscess practice analogue with FAKE PUS)
Access to on-site ultrasound machine for hands-on training
Event T-shirt

Hands-On Modules

Incision and Drainage Training

Participants will learn the proper technique for incision and drainage of an abscess, whether or not to pack, and definitive treatment including antibiotic appropriateness.

Ultrasound Training

With ARC Live, participants will get hands-on practice in the art of ultrasound assessment of abscesses and soft tissue disorders. Participants will learn how to differentiate an abscess with fluctuance from simple cellulitis and answer that all important question of “Should I cut?”.

Biopsy Excision Training

Participants will learn the proper technique for biopsy and excision of skin tags, moles, and cystic lesions using punch and scalpel techniques.

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