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.