Hi! All wounds are candidates for a wound clinic! At the very least, someone who specializes in wound care can give an educated and experienced opinion. When healing a wound, one must identify what caused it in the first place, if pressure is still ...
Hi! Does your company have a policy? Where I work, length is always the longest point from 12-6, and width is the widest points while keeping the ruler straight from 9-3. We never measure diagonolly. Hope this helps.
We have both in our clinic. Everyone are able to perform the same tasks; however, our wound management center does require that all providers attend their wound care course. Our PA and NP writes home health orders as well, our medical director just ...
Hi! I work out an outpatient I wound care clinic, located inside a hospital. KCI vacs are used on the inpatient side, I think they are rented. The inpatient nurse normally orders a KCI vacs for home use. However, if the patient will be seeing us a...
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Good morning! Im also interested in getting out on my own! I'm very much in the baby stages but have connected locally with a wonderful RN who has been doing it for years! However, she only does foot care once a month on average because of her other ...
Had a male patient who would be very anxious about the physician touching his wound. One day he asked for more lidocaine before the physician even got started. So the physician says " Lidocaine is for pu**ies, are you a pu**y?" The patient never ask...
When you work in busy, short staffed wound care center and all your patients have either a VAC, Total Contact Cast or 10+ wounds and your new hire states "No sweat, I've done this all before!"
" Do you want me to get naked now"....Stated by a smiling inmate convicted of rape who didn't have to get naked for what was going on. And yes, he proceeded to get undressed😡
