Practice Management

Dealing with patients who can’t or won’t participate in their care can be a challenge for health care providers across all settings. In wound care, this lack of participation can result in great finan...

By Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN There is a traveler coming to your hospital who will only be working for 13 weeks, eight weeks or however long the facility needs that nurse. As a nurse working in t...

Christine Miller, DPM, PhD, CWSP, FACCWS War has often been the driver of medical innovations; the battlefield has been the birthplace of many advancements that have shaped modern health care. One ...

Pressure injuries (PIs) typically are the result of unrelieved pressure, shear, or force. In an inpatient or hospital setting, interventions are put into place to prevent pressure injuries based on ev...

Scott Bolhack MD, MBA, CMD, CWS, FACP, FAAP, shares the insights he gained from the uncommon wound he encountered. The 7th Day Stingray itch syndrome, although well known on the west coast, is not fam...

Laura Swoboda, DNP, APNP, FNP-C, FNP-BC, CWOCN-AP Due to factors including the lack of affordable housing and the retrenchment of social programs, the prevalence of homeless people experiencing hom...

Editor's Note: After attending SAWC Spring 2023, Emily Greenstein, APRN, CNP, CWON, FACCWS, shares several facets of good wound care that she explored at the conference. She discusses going back to th...

Patients with wounds are cared for according to the scope and standards of practice, which are used to guide nurses and other members of the interprofessional wound care team. An intricate network of ...

Health People 2030 (HP2030) define social determinants of health (SDOH) as conditions (nonmedical factors) within environments where people are born, reside, learn, work, play, worship, and grow old. ...

Wound bed preparation is the systematic approach clinicians use to identify and remove barriers to the healing process of the wound. The approach aims to create an optimal wound healing environment by...