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Wound Assessment and Documentation

Comparing Alginate and Gelling Fiber Dressings

August 3, 2017
By Holly Hovan MSN, APRN, CWOCN-AP As wound care clinicians, we are aware that part of the process of consulting requires a comprehensive wound assessment, looking at wound characteristics, causati...

Creating a Plan of Care for Wound Management

July 31, 2022
Wound management is a tremendous clinical challenge for many health care professionals. The World Health Organization has recognized that wound management is a worldwide public health issue best manag...

Critical Components to Encourage Wound Healing: Basing Treatment on Etiology

May 18, 2021
Wound care and healing require an evidenced-based, interprofessional approach, following standards of care, and treating the whole patient, not just the hole in the patient. Often, wound care clinicia...

Critical Timing: The Inflammatory Phase of Wound Healing

February 27, 2020
Wound healing is a complex biological process that involves a sequence of molecular and cellular events to restore damaged tissue. These events occur within the extracellular matrix, a complex three-d...

CTP Reimbursement: What’s New

November 30, 2023
Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new local coverage determination (LCD) impacting wound care providers, originally planned for implementation on October 1...

Decreasing Patient Wait Time and Increasing Patient Experience

April 28, 2023
By Hannah Fell, Digital Managing Editor Jennifer Bouchard became a registered nurse with a BSN in 2005. Since then, she has gotten her MSN and MBA and, most recently, had the opportunity to work at...

Delayed Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Chronic Wound Therapy

November 30, 2021
Chronic wound care is challenging for the entire healthcare ecosystem, from clinicians to patients, and COVID-19 has only exacerbated those challenges. Patients are delaying primary care provider and ...

Delayed Wound Healing: Investigating and Addressing the Cause

April 4, 2017
By Janet Wolfson PT, CLWT, CWS, CLT-LANA Delayed wound healing: how did it start, what are we doing to prevent delay, and what could we be doing differently when delay is noted? ...
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