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Adding Wound Care Certification to Your Professional Goals

March 16, 2018
by Paula Erwin-Toth MSN, RN, CWOCN, CNS, FAAN Tradition claims March comes in like a lion and leaves like a lamb. Depending on where you live, March is in a full-throated roar! Kids are thinking ab...

Antimicrobial Stewardship in Wound Care: Program Basics

January 1, 2020
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...

Author Picks: Top 12 Resources for Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses

April 4, 2014
By Paula Erwin-Toth MSN, RN, CWOCN, CNS, FAAN Happy Spring! At least that is what the calendar indicates, but recent temperatures across much of the US seem to dispute that fact....

Building a Pressure Injury Prevention Program: Frequently Asked Questions

January 31, 2020
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...

Burnout in Wound Care: Caring for Every Care Provider

December 1, 2022
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...

Exploring the Identity of the Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse in Industry

October 3, 2019
By Cynthia Sylvia, D NURS, MSc, MA, RN, CWCN In this first installment of my new WoundSource video blog series, I will be sharing my doctoral research on exploring the identity of the certified wou...

From Here to There: My Journey as a Certified Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse

November 29, 2017
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...

Getting Ready for Wound Care Certification: Study Tips and Practice Questions

May 31, 2019
By Holly M. Hovan, MSN, RN-BC, APRN-CNS, CWOCN-AP As discussed in a prior blog, reflecting on why you want to become certified and how to begin the process are some important initial steps when con...

Give Yourself a Professional Treat – Attend a Wound Care Conference!

March 23, 2016
By Diana L. Gallagher MS, RN, CWOCN, CFCN I just finished attending my first professional conference of the year. It was a combined meeting of the Wound Care Institute and the South Central Region ...
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