Ask the treatment expert: Pressure ulcers and vitamin supplements
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Donna Sardina
Dec 01, 2010
Donna Sardina, RN, MHA, WCC, President, Wound Care Education Institute
Ask the treatment expert
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Donna Sardina
Oct 01, 2008
Donna Sardina, RN, MHA, WCC President, Wound Care Education Institute
Ask the treatment expert: coding suspected deep tissue injury (sDTI) pressure ulcers in the MDS 2.0
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Donna Sardina
Sep 01, 2009
Donna Sardina, RN, MHA, WCC, President, Wound Care Education Institute
Ask the Treatment Expert about … creating a skin care team
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Jeri Lundgren
Sep 06, 2017
I’m a wound care nurse new to long-term care, and I want to develop a skin care team. Whom should I consider for team members?
Ask the treatment expert: What are our wound care certification options?
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Jeri Lundgren
Apr 01, 2020
We would like to have our nurse overseeing our skin integrity program board-certified in wound care. What are the options?
Ask the Treatment Expert about… palliative ulcer care
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Rosalyn Jordan, RN, BSN, MSc, CWOCN, WCC
Feb 04, 2016
I am treating a resident who is receiving palliative care with a Stage III pressure ulcer on the right trochanter and a Stage IV pressure ulcer on the sacrum. How should I treat these pressure ulcers?
Ask the treatment expert: What is the best way to treat a yeast infection?
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Susan Wickard
Dec 02, 2012
This is a question that often surfaces, so it may be useful to review the definition, causes, recognition and treatment of “yeast infections.”
Ask the treatment expert: What are some of the documentation things nurses often miss?
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Susan Wickard
Jan 01, 2013
A useful resource, “Wound Care Made Incredibly Visual,” offers an acronym that may be helpful in highlighting information that should be included when documenting about wounds: WOUNDD PICTURE
Ask the treatment expert: How can our facility systematically address medical device-related pressure...
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Mary P. Evans, M.D., CMD, CWSP
May 01, 2021
How can our facility systematically address medical device-related pressure injuries?
Ask the Treatment Expert about … what NPUAP’s new “pressure ulcer” definition...
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Rosalyn Jordan, RN, BSN, MSc, CWOCN, WCC
Jul 04, 2016
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel announced a number of changes in April, including replacing the term “pressure ulcer” with “pressure injury” and modifying stage definitions.