Clinician Education

As you may have already heard, the World Health Organization (WHO) has designated 2020 as the year of the nurse and midwife. The WHO has informed us that in order to achieve universal health coverage ...

Dealing with patients who either 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 grea...

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 Diana L. Gallagher MS, RN, CWOCN, CFCN In my introductory blog, I indulged in a personal journey down memory lane. I looked back fondly at some of the incredible mentors that inspired me and sh...

By Cheryl Carver, LPN, WCC, CWCA, FACCWS, DAPWCA, CLTC I have been referred to as the "crazy wound nurse" by many of my co-workers and patients throughout the years. I've been known to dance, sing,...

By Ron Sherman MD, MSC, DTM&H The Primary Issues with Systematic Reviews My contribution to this column is very much overdue. Among other things, I have spent much of my time this past 12 months ...

By Laurie Swezey RN, BSN, CWOCN, CWS, FACCWS Staying up-to-date with the latest in wound care can be challenging, given that there are new treatments being developed, research being reviewed, updat...

For years I was the only medical doctor doing inpatient wound consults in my hospital. I was continually amazed at the variety of wounds that reflected a wide gamut of human disease. Each wound was un...

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 ...

By Ryan Cummings, FNP, CWS Although the impact of depression on all aspects of health and healing is well known and has been researched in progressively greater detail over the last decade, the rol...