Lydia Corum RN, MSN, CWCN
Lydia Corum RN, MSN, CWCN has been in the nursing profession since 1996 and has been in wound care for over 15 years.
Ms. Corum is currently a Wound Care Coordinator for West Hills Hospital & Medical Center. Having worked as a clinical manager in wound clinics and hyperbaric centers, she has developed a strong passion for education through her positions and within the wound care community at large.
Ms. Corum currently has her Masters in Nursing from Keiser University. Her background in multiple care venues and educational roles professionally gives her expertise in a wide range of patient care situations. Her nursing philosophy to "heal wounds as quickly as possible" is the guiding force behind her educational pursuits, both as a teacher and a student.
By Lydia Corum, RN, MSN, CWCN
A client walks into the law firm and states that a family member has suffered from unfair treatment and, as a result, acquired a pressure injury while in the hospital. The firm gathers the information, and the lawyer tells the family member at a...
By Lydia Corum RN MSN CWCN
The times are changing in the world of wound care. There used to be a time when there were no problems with reimbursements, as long as the doctor wrote the order. Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations confuse...
By Lydia Corum RN MSN CWCN
How many wound care coordinators have walked into a patient's room to check on a wound before the patient is discharged only to find that the same dressing originally ordered for the wound is still in place, or there is even no dressing at all? The...
By Lydia A. Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN
In the times that I have worked with amazing hospitals and doctors, I have learned and gathered information on the differences between two types of necrotizing infections that happen in the world of wound care. Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) and...
By Lydia A. Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN
Wound infections are discussed in the media and are a major reason for admission into the hospital. With the importance in health care today to decrease costs, I was encouraged to do research into where infections come from and the causes for...
By Lydia A. Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN
Today's health care changes are a necessity. Unfortunately, both the country's economy and overspending with abuse of the system contributed to this need for change. What are the predictions for the future? How can educated health care...
By Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN
A wound care patient is a person with an open area that is not healing. I hear wound care patients referred to as: the pressure ulcer, the hip wounds, the one that has legs that always smell like urine, the...
By Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a type of therapy that is oxygen done under greater than atmospheric pressure. Treatments are done according to approval by Medicare/Medicaid rules and regulations. At this time...
By Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN
There is a traveler coming to your hospital who will only be working for 13 weeks, eight weeks or however long the facility needs that nurse. As a nurse working in the hospital, how does working with this temporary staff member make you feel? What...
By Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN
Enterocutaneous Fistulae (ECF) are a major healthcare issue affecting patients, their lives and the healthcare system. ECF are defined as abnormal connections from one organ to another. The most serious condition is formation from an internal organ...
By Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN
Diabetes is the number one cause of amputation for wound care patients. Individuals with diabetes need monitoring and education about the dangers they face on a daily basis due to their condition. Diabetic ulcers often begin with a simple bump, as...
By Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN
Radiation necrosis can be defined as cell death as a result of high doses of radiation as used with aggressive tumors. The dead cells caused by the loss of blood flow can be located anywhere in line with the radiation treatments. This damage can...
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 marketing practices...
by Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN
At the start of December, I was looking at graduation from my Master's Degree program and the completion of my final paper. A capstone to the Master's program is much like the dissertation to the doctoral program. My journey has been long and along...
By Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN
In recent months, I have gained insight into a problem that appears to be universal across the continuum of care and across the country as I’ve worked in different facilities and in different capacities. I have found some people accepting of new...
By Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN
I have been thinking for awhile about what to do for this month’s blog. During the time I worked for CTI nutritional I realized that many wound care nurses, including myself, are not well trained in nutrition. I also noted the impact that...
By Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN
I have heard some doctors and a number of other health care professionals talk about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) and my sense is not many of them truly understand what it does or how it works. HBOT is not a television station and it is not...
By Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN
I am a Certified Wound Care Nurse (CWCN) and received my Certification with the Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse Association (WOCN). I will not say...