Professional Development

By Miranda Henry, WoundSource Managing Editor There are opportunities for health care providers at all levels to become experts in the field of wound care. This multidisciplinary field is comprised...

By Terri Kolenich, RN, CWCA, AAPWCA We have all heard time and time again how important it is to take care of yourself first so you can take better care of others. It is impossible to give somethin...

By Laurie Swezey RN, BSN, CWOCN, CWS, FACCWS You've learned all you can about wound care. Perhaps you've been working in wound care for a while and have decided that you would like to pursue wound ...

Education is key in sustained positive outcomes and it is the first step in understanding pressure injury prevention, for both patients and staff. It's very difficult to hold people accountable for so...

By Kathy Gallagher, DNP, APRN-FNP, CMC, UMC, BC, WCC, CWS, FACCWS In 2010, Christiana Care Health System, a 1,000 bed Level I trauma center in Wilmington, Delaware, introduced an acute surgical w...

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest health threats of the 21st century. The current number of deaths attributed to drug-resistant infections is 700,000, yet this figure is expected to grow...

Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) pose a challenge for acute and post-acute care environments and are listed as hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Servi...

Jobs in the field of medicine are notoriously demanding. However, many factors are converging to exacerbate this problem, and clinician burnout poses a large threat to the health care system in the Un...

By Fabiola Jimenez, RN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN Nursing has given me great opportunities; some of them I never imagined possible. I started as a medical surgical nurse in an oncology unit where the treatmen...