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Must Love Dogs: Animal Adventures in Home Health Care

January 10, 2019
By Margaret Heale, RN, MSc, CWOCN "Must Love Dogs (Cats, Lizards, Snakes, Birds, AND Arachnids)." This is a line that needs to be next to all job advertisements for home health care staff. You see,...

Navigating Wound Care From Hospital to Home

March 9, 2022
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...

Nurse, Caregiver, Advocate: A Wound Care Practitioner Perspective on Taking Care of Family

November 3, 2016
By Paula Erwin-Toth MSN, RN, CWOCN, CNS, FAAN November marks the beginning of National Family Caregiver Month. Many of us are not only health care providers, but we are also family caregiver; some ...

Offering Support and Resources for Family Caregivers

October 30, 2014
By Paula Erwin-Toth MSN, RN, CWOCN, CNS, FAAN This November marks the second annual National Family Caregivers Month. Family caregivers are the unsung, unpaid giants of health care. Some are sudden...

Patient and Family Wound Care Education: Clinician and Learner Challenges

June 12, 2012
Part 1 in a series discussing the challenges and opportunities in patient/family education By Paula Erwin-Toth, MSN, RN, CWOCN, CNS Mr. Gillan is a 72 year old man with venous insufficiency. He ...

Preventing Pressure Injuries by Encouraging Nursing Assistants

November 14, 2019
By Holly M. Hovan MSN, RN-BC, APRN.ACNS-BC, CWOCN-AP Often when we hear the words "pressure injury," our brains are trained to think about staging the wound, considering treatment options, and obta...

Principles of Clean Dressing Technique Versus Asepsis

September 20, 2018
By Margaret Heale, RN, MSc, CWOCN Having read a recent article on clean versus sterile dressing technique, commenting again on this issue seems highly appropriate. The conclusion of the paper essen...

Remodeling Wound Care: Specialization and Evidence-Based Patient Care

February 11, 2013
By Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN I recently wrote a blog on my proposal to remodel home health care. I continue my musings as we consider other ways we can incorporate consumer-based business and ma...
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