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Multidisciplinary Care: How Vital Is Communication

April 28, 2023
Dr. Scott Bolhack, MD, MBA, CMD, CWS, FACP, FAAP, discusses the importance of communication across care settings. Through the "Wound Provider Checklist" he presented at SAWC Spring 2023, Dr. Bolhack h...

My Aha Moment: A New Perspective on Patient-Centered Care

January 26, 2017
By Lindsay Andronaco RN, BSN, CWCN, WOC, DAPWCA, FAACWS Medicine changes constantly, and we must stay up to date on the best options for our patients. You're reading this because you want to be a b...

Nature of Wound Healing: Lessons from 17th Century

February 9, 2024
Healing chronic wounds is a challenging endeavor, even in modern times where wound care professionals can harmonize key factors to achieve an optimal wound environment for recovery. In earlier centuri...

Non-Cytotoxic Wound Cleansers: What Should I Use?

June 10, 2022
The process of wound healing ideally progresses from inflammation to epithelialization and, finally, remodeling. If at any point bacterial (or fungal) colonization becomes prominent, the process of wo...

Notes to Myself as a Novice Nurse

July 12, 2013
By Diana L. Gallagher MS, RN, CWOCN, CFCN Recently, I have been intrigued by a variety of celebrities offering us a glimpse of their inner selves as they share what they wish they had known when th...

Nurse Paralegal: The Process in Practice

February 17, 2023
A client walks into the law firm and states that a family member has suffered from unfair treatment and, as a result, acquired a pressure injury while in the hospital. The firm gathers the information...

Nurses as Innovators: The Power of Asking Why

March 17, 2023
Mary R Brennan, RN, MBA, CWON Inquisitive nurses have questioned the status quo and challenged the current standards available at the time. They believed there was an improvement that could be made...

Nursing Perspectives: What Makes a Wound Care Specialist?

March 19, 2015
By Cheryl Carver, LPN, WCC, CWCA, FACCWS, DAPWCA, CLTC It is kind of funny to me, but we all tend to first take a gander at the alphabet soup on badges or business cards. But I ask you this, "Is th...

Nursing Staff Education and Communication: I Do not Know Versus Remind Me

February 20, 2019
By Fabiola Jimenez, RN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN I recently celebrated 30 years in nursing and completed my fourth year as a certified wound, ostomy and continence nurse. Since I took my current position in ...

Ongoing Wound Education for Long-Term Care

March 30, 2017
By Cheryl Carver LPN, WCC, CWCA, CWCP, FACCWS, DAPWCA, CLTC I tell everyone that long-term care is the toughest arena for a wound consultant. However, it can also be the most rewarding. The focus o...
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