Patient Outcomes

By Michel H.E. Hermans, MD Your mortgage company will not be able to hike your interest rate by 500% before the maturity date. If they tried, you could sue them for breach of contract and simply go...

By Cheryl Carver LPN, WCC, CWCA, CWCP, FACCWS, DAPWCA, CLTC Let's be frank: wound care telemedicine cannot replace a visit to a physician's office or the wound care center. Telemedicine was primar...

By Laurie Swezey RN, BSN, CWOCN, CWS, FACCWS Patient care must always be centered holistically, considering the specific problem that the patient is being treated for, as well as all other factors ...

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 ...

By Michel H.E. Hermans, MD The 10 year old son of friends of mine incurred a gash in his right knee. After the injury, he was able to walk without pain in the leg (the gash did hurt, of course) but...

By Cheryl Carver, LPN, WCC, CWCA, FACCWS, DAPWCA, CLTC A long-term care facility is paid thousands of dollars monthly to take care of our loved ones. This should assure us to feel a healthy sense o...

By Janet Wolfson PT, CLWT, CWS, CLT-LANA I was recently listening to one of my favorite news sources, NPR, enjoying an interview with James E. Ryan, the author of "Wait, What? - and Life's Other Es...

By Paula Erwin-Toth MSN, RN, CWOCN, CNS, FAAN The signs of summer winding down are everywhere. Leaves are beginning to look 'tired', fall clothes fill the stores and 'back to school' ads are everyw...

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 Aletha Tippett, MD How do you know if you are making right choice for a patient? Or, how do you know if you are even making a choice? This is true in the world of limb salvage. I have witnessed ...