Comprehensive Suture Training Workshop
The Complete 16 CE Hour Step-by-Step Guide of Basic to Advanced Wound Closure
Ready to take your suturing learning to the next level?
With zero experience required, this self-paced online course takes any learner and provides consistent, quality technique in the most current, evidence-based suturing techniques. This course includes content usually reserved for first assisting courses costing over $5000! The gold nuggets we provide are such simple but useful learning points that you can introduce into your technique immediately.
Taught and narrated by Dr. John Russell, Program Director - Collegiate Division, for the National Institute of First Assisting, Inc and owner of Skills On Point, this course is the virtual adaptation of the live courses we have become famous for with high-quality instruments, expert instruction, and a comfortable price point so everyone can attend who wants to learn!
This course includes 16.0 Hours of AAFP-Approved contact hours and includes an impressive array of supplies so you have virtually everything you need to perform this course and continue to practice for years to come!
Just check out the impressive curriculum listed below! Each course section includes lectures and demos to clearly reinforce the learning, and we even offer virtual synchronous learning sessions via Zoom to make sure you are on point with your technique!
PLUS Check out these SWEET custom-made instruments you get to keep!
Unlike our competitors, we give you REAL OR-GRADE INSTRUMENTS. You won't find any doc-in-a-box kits or "made in Taiwan" stamps on our instruments.
We value your training and we invest in YOU.
Come see the Skills On Point difference!
The AAFP has reviewed Comprehensive Suture Training Workshop and deemed it acceptable for up to 16.00 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credit(s). Term of Approval is from 06/01/2024 to 05/31/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed, not as Category 1.
Your Instructor
Dr. John Russell, DNP, APRN, AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC, CCRN, RNFA is the owner and founder of Skills On Point®, LLC as well as a nurse practitioner/first assistant with practice experience in cardiothoracic surgery. As well as an instructor for the National Institute of First Assisting, INC (NIFA®), John teaches as a guest lecturer through Skills On Point for nurse practitioner students for many universities and Rosalind Franklin University for CRNA students. He loves simplifying complicated concepts into digestible portions and loves to use ridiculous analogies to make the most complicated concepts come to life for the learner.
Course Curriculum
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StartReasons we Close Wounds (2:57)
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StartIrrigation and Wound Prep (10:27)
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PreviewSelecting Anesthetics (10:36)
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StartPerforming Local Anesthesia (Lecture and Demo) (10:30)
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StartSterile Technique (5:48)
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StartWound Healing Principles and Intention (14:17)
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StartSuture Types and Applications (20:51)
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StartNeedle Types and Applications (6:14)
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StartSuture Size and Applications (4:01)
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StartHow Long to Leave Sutures In (4:30)
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StartTension Management (5:47)
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StartThe Surgical Environment (2:14)
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StartSurgical Skin Prep (3:10)
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StartSurgical Draping (3:21)
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StartNeedle Holders (Lecture and Demo) (11:26)
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StartTissue Forceps (Lecture and Demo) (5:26)
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StartSurgical Scissors (Lecture and Demo) (6:16)
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StartScalpels (Lecture and Demo) (3:12)
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StartPreparing the SEAL Pad (Demo) (3:26)
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StartPreparing the Simulated Skin Pad (Demo) (2:00)
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StartMaking the Incision (Lecture and Demo) (10:36)
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StartLoading the Needle Holder (Demo) (1:06)
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StartLeft Hand vs Right Handed Technique (Lecture and Demo) (5:41)
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StartSpecialty Needle Holders (Lecture and Demo) (5:26)
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StartSpecialty Tissue Forceps (Lecture and Demo) (3:58)
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StartSpecialty Scissors (Lecture and Demo) (6:29)
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PreviewLoading Scalpels (Lecture and Demo) (5:38)
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StartWeitlaner Retractor (Lecture and Demo) (4:57)
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StartSafely Passing Instruments/Sharps (Lecture and Demo) (4:40)
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StartFine Suture Management (3:07)
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StartSpecialty Sutures (5:04)
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StartSurgical Loupes (2:55)
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StartElectrocautery (2:13)
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StartSuction (2:00)
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StartSurgical Sponges (2:07)
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StartFollowing Suture (2:36)
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StartWorking With an Assistant (3:09)
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StartWorking As an Assistant (6:08)