Primary Skin Cancer: Types of Wounds You Might Encounter
By Carole Jakucs, MSN, RN, PHN, CDCES
November 18, 2020
No matter your practice environment, you’ll likely encounter patients with wounds related to primary skin cancer at some point. To learn more about primary skin cancer wounds, we spoke with Joni Brinker, MSN/MHA, RN, WCC, an Ohio-based consultant and clinical nurse educator with Optum Hospice Pharmacy Services of Eden Prairie, Minnesota. She also spoke during […]
Hospice Wound Care: 3 Strategies for Better Patient Outcomes
By Carole Jakucs, MSN, RN, PHN, CDCES
October 21, 2020
Providing wound care for hospice patients is an important aspect of delivering comprehensive, end-of-life care. While some hospice services have wound care specialists on staff or access to on-call, contracted wound care services, others do not. Hospice providers without wound experts on staff often try to manage patients’ wounds on their own, said Joni Brinker, […]
TIMERS Wound Care: Strategies for Wound Bed Preparation
By Carole Jakucs, MSN, RN, PHN, CDCES
July 29, 2020
Whether you’ve been in wound care for many years, or are a newcomer to the field, you have likely heard the terms TIME and maybe TIMERS. The two words are acronyms pertaining to clinical categories related to comprehensive wound assessment, management and wound bed preparation for hard-to-heal wounds, said Donald Wollheim, MD, FAPWCA, WCC, DWC, […]