
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, MSN/MHA, RN, WCC.
Brinker is an Ohio-based consultant and clinical nurse educator with Optum Hospice Pharmacy Services of Eden Prairie, Minn.
They only summon a wound care specialist if a problem develops, she added.
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