Are wound cultures the best method to determine if a wound is infected?
WOCN introduces first mobile app
May 06, 2014
The Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society™ has launched its first app, called the Evidence-Based Wound Care Guidelines and Fecal Ostomy Best Practice app. It is designed to provide up-to-date recommendations...
Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers are 10 times more common than Medicare data shows, research suggests
By
Tim Mullaney
Oct 16, 2013
The Medicare program often paints a far rosier picture of hospitals’ pressure ulcer rates than is indicated by data collected bedside by nurses, according to a newly published study.
Expanded surveys will focus on staffing, MDS coding
By
Tim Mullaney
Nov 04, 2014
Special surveys to determine Minimum Data Set coding accuracy and nursing home staffing levels will occur nationwide in 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in an Oct. 31 memorandum....
Online Expo begins Wednesday
Mar 24, 2015
It might still be snowing in some parts of the country, but there’s no better sign of spring than the beginning of the McKnight’s Online Expo.
Nurses lacking ulcer awareness: study
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 06, 2017
Nurses need more training on medical device-related pressure ulcers, according to a prospective study published in Ostomy Wound Management.
Ask the treatment expert … about measuring wounds
By
Rosalyn Jordan, RN, BSN, MSc, CWOCN, WCC
May 01, 2014
What is your advice about measuring wounds?
Thomas: Additional pressure ulcer research trials a must
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jan 01, 2014
Nursing homes should adopt evidence-based approaches to pressure ulcer prevention and treatment, but significantly more research is needed to support this goal, a professor of geriatric medicine said in...
Ask the Treatment Expert about … pressure ulcer policies
By
Jeri Lundgren
Oct 06, 2017
What are the significant changes from F314 Pressure Sores to F686 Skin Integrity, “Pressure Ulcers,” which takes effect in November?
Unapproved marketing of pressure ulcer drug brings settlement worth up to $48 million
By
McKnight's Staff
Dec 10, 2012
The unapproved bed sore drug Xenaderm, which was marketed to nursing homes as “Medicaid reimbursed,” is the source of a settlement that could reach $48 million for Healthpoint Ltd. and DFB...