Documentation

Wounds, including chronic and complex wounds, represent a tremendous challenge to the US health care system. In the United States alone, chronic wounds impact approximately 6.5 million patients, and t...

Many nurses have spent their careers in different parts of the health care system. This diverse experience allows them to bring exclusive knowledge to medical malpractice cases. Legal nurse consultant...

Inconsistencies, omission of necessary elements of wound documentation, as well as misunderstandings of proper wound terminology and concepts can potentially leave glaring inaccuracies and omissions i...

For patients discharged from the acute care setting, the road home can be laden with potholes and speed bumps. For many patients, the fear of the unknown after being newly diagnosed with a wound or th...

The National Quality Forum (NQF) introduced the term never event in the early 2000s, and it refers to a preventable error that may represent fundamental issues with the quality or safety of care withi...

In part 2, we will discuss how clinicians and physicians determine if Medicare will cover and pay for various types of debridement. Why should wound ulcer management clinicians, physicians, and QHPs s...

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...

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 ...