WOC professionals, Do CNAs place wound vacs in your healthcare setting? In my wound clinic CNAs can place wound vacs. Our CNA is wound certified. The certification class she took was for CNAs. Regardless....I have never seen this before. I am wondering if CNAs doing wound vacs is more common than I know. What are your thoughts:happy: ---------------------------------- PS I started a thread last week but noone responded, so I'm attempting again with a different title. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jun 20, 2018 by Corkyme I'm not a woc nurse but I've never heard of a cna placing a wound vac. Our cnas dont do anything with them except report if yherebis a problem Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jun 21, 2018 by Koalified All the hospitals I worked at, CNAs do not touch wound vacs. It's out of their scope of practice. I have never heard of wound certified CNAs though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jul 21, 2018 by trina4362 Hello, I'm the lead nurse in an outpatient wound clinic in Texas and yes my tech does apply wound vacs. I had to train her and make sure her compencty is done every year. But yes it's not out of her scope as long as she's been trained properly. We are outpatient so this may be different for inpatient. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jul 23, 2018 by Ellekat2 I would like to know what certification your CNA has. I work with a CNA who is interested in obtaining certification. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites