As chronic conditions like diabetes and vascular diseases become more common, the demand for nurses specializing in wound care has increased significantly. Wound care nursing offers a unique blend of ...

Proper skin care often comes down to good old-fashioned common sense. To avoid pressure ulcers, stick to the basics. Investing just a little bit in wound care prevention goes a long way, experts say. ...

This question was posed on our website a few weeks ago and on Twitter and the response was pretty much a unanimous no. We were responding to an international, multidisciplinary study which highlighted ...

In spite of concerted efforts to improve wound care, nursing homes continue to be dogged by many peripheral issues, chief among them being pay and workload complaints. “When I started working in ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Whenever I got a wound while I was young, my mother would take me to the hospital to get stitches. I am now 94. I went to get a wound seen, and the nurse said that it needed to heal ...

The Grande Ronde Hospital (GRH) Wound Clinic, located at 700 Sunset Dr., Suite F, has experienced significant growth over the past 15 years, evolving from a single-room clinic in the SurgiCenter that ...

It is important to be aware of who is performing body piercings in the community and under what conditions (Armstrong, 1996). Many jurisdictions do not regulate body modification practices. Depending ...