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I too am interested in a good text for reference and/or exam study.

@EtakRN Thank you so much for your candor and your thorough answer. That gives me a lot of good mental preparation for what lies ahead. For any others out there I would be interested in your experiences too. Especially Question 2. I am also very interested in anyone who works in a outpatient clinic and what that is like.

I am considering a WOCN program. But am interested in perspectives from the group. Also, any additional information that you think I should know would be very much appreciated. 1) For hospital-based WOCNs are most of them their own separate consult service? Or are they attached to a single department? What is the workload like for a hospital-based WOCNs? How many patients per day? An old post from 2015 indicated that some are stretched thin (2 nurses for a 450 bed hospital) averaging 8 hrs / 12 pts = 40 mins / pt. That's a full day if you consider some of them may be new ostomy pts and then there is documentation. Is this old post still true? 2) How much time is spent on documentation/paperwork vs actual patient care? How many attributes are documented for each wound? In the Homecare Homebase EMR used in home health, there are 34 questions for each wound. 3) I realize that every clinician must assess the entire patient and wounds are a symptom of a systemic breakdown. But how much of the non-wound patient care does the WOCN wind up doing? 4) Also, are there LTC/nursing facility-based WOCNs? What is their workload like? 5) Is it true that home health care WOCNs mostly work by computer? How many assessments per day are they responsible for? 6) Do WOCNs typically work weekends and holidays? 7) Is compensation on a per-year, per-day, per-hour, or per-patient basis? Does compensation include benefits such as health insurance and vacation? Thank you in advance.

@Nurse on the Go thank you for that information. What made you choose the Cleveland program over the others? Most are on-line and most have sim clinicals.

Thank you @CalicoKitty. Especially about the preceptor information.

Thank you @phelanka6 for your reply. That truly does help.

I am looking to start a WOCN program. I would like to do it on-line and self-paced. Can anybody tell me what they thought of their programs in general?Does one program have a better reputation than the other? WebWoc vs Emory?How hard is it to arrange a preceptorship? I live in the NYC area. Especially during COVID19?How easy/hard is it to get your questions answered by an instructor or teaching assistant?The programs I am most considering are the WebWOC program (https://webwocnurse.com/) and the Emory program (http://www.nursing.emory.edu/centers-and-initiatives/wocnec/wonec-nurse/traditional-pathway/index.html). Thanks in advance for your input!