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Volume 48 - Issue 3 - March, 2002

Special Report
Special Report: $20 Million Invested in Nursing’s Future
12/12/2014
   When your mother is a nurse and you are Vice Chairman of the Board for Johnson & Johnson, corporate responsibility calls for more than a Band Aid(R), as James Lenehan can affirm. In response to the growing shortage of nurses, Lenehan,...
   When your mother is a nurse and you are Vice Chairman of the Board for Johnson & Johnson, corporate responsibility calls for more than a Band Aid(R), as James Lenehan can affirm. In response to the growing shortage of nurses, Lenehan,...
   When your mother is a nurse...
12/12/2014
Wound Management & Prevention
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor: Prevalence and Incidence Study Sparks Issues
12/12/2014
Dear Editor,    With much interest, we read the article, "Prevalence and Incidence Studies of Pressure Ulcers in Two Long-Term Care Facilities in Canada" (Ostomy/Wound Management, 2001;47[11]:28-34). Studies in which both the prevalence and...
Dear Editor,    With much interest, we read the article, "Prevalence and Incidence Studies of Pressure Ulcers in Two Long-Term Care Facilities in Canada" (Ostomy/Wound Management, 2001;47[11]:28-34). Studies in which both the prevalence and...
Dear Editor,    With much...
12/12/2014
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Pressure Ulcers in Nursing Homes: Does Negligence Litigation Exceed Available Evidence?
08/27/2014
   It's official. A crisis exists in nursing homes, fueled by critical staffing shortages that a recent General Accounting Office (GAO) report indicates are expected to become more serious as the population ages and the demand for nursing...
   It's official. A crisis exists in nursing homes, fueled by critical staffing shortages that a recent General Accounting Office (GAO) report indicates are expected to become more serious as the population ages and the demand for nursing...
   It's official. A crisis...
08/27/2014
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Noncontact Normothermic Wound Therapy and Offloading in the Treatment of Neuropathic Foot Ulcers in Patients with Diabetes
08/27/2014
   An estimated 5% to 6% of the population of the United States has diabetes.1 A common complication of the disease is plantar ulceration secondary to sensory neuropathy and the repetitive stress of walking.2    Nonhealing foot ulcerations...
   An estimated 5% to 6% of the population of the United States has diabetes.1 A common complication of the disease is plantar ulceration secondary to sensory neuropathy and the repetitive stress of walking.2    Nonhealing foot ulcerations...
   An estimated 5% to 6% of the...
08/27/2014
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Chronic Fall Risk Among Aged Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes
08/27/2014
   Approximately one-third of community-dwelling individuals over 65 years of age will experience a fall and one-half of these individuals will become chronic fallers.1-6 Chronic falling has been defined in the literature as falling two or...
   Approximately one-third of community-dwelling individuals over 65 years of age will experience a fall and one-half of these individuals will become chronic fallers.1-6 Chronic falling has been defined in the literature as falling two or...
   Approximately one-third of...
08/27/2014
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
The Ostomy Files: Creating an Ostomy Product Formulary
08/27/2014
   The establishment of private and public prospectively paid health insurance plans has forced providers to look for more creative ways to streamline evidence-based care and control costs. One of the first places many providers look to trim...
   The establishment of private and public prospectively paid health insurance plans has forced providers to look for more creative ways to streamline evidence-based care and control costs. One of the first places many providers look to trim...
   The establishment of private...
08/27/2014
Wound Management & Prevention
Editorial
Editor`s Opinion: Removing the "Un" from the Law of Unintended Consequences
08/27/2014
   Once upon a time, we lived in a world where clinicians provided patient care and researchers explored new ways to provide that care. Editors read the work they received and publishers published. Also in this world, patients presumed the...
   Once upon a time, we lived in a world where clinicians provided patient care and researchers explored new ways to provide that care. Editors read the work they received and publishers published. Also in this world, patients presumed the...
   Once upon a time, we lived in...
08/27/2014
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
My Scope of Practice: Home is Where the Heart Is
03/12/2002
   Marsha Davidson, RN, MSN, CWOCN, is a home health nurse who wears a plastic, disposable apron because she wants to be able to "hug the wounded area if necessary while working and not have to worry."    Seeing her in action, one gets the...
   Marsha Davidson, RN, MSN, CWOCN, is a home health nurse who wears a plastic, disposable apron because she wants to be able to "hug the wounded area if necessary while working and not have to worry."    Seeing her in action, one gets the...
   Marsha Davidson, RN, MSN,...
03/12/2002
Wound Management & Prevention
Industry Insider
New Products and Industry News
12/12/2014
NAHC comments on LMRP wound care draft    Cahaba Government Benefit Administrators (GBA), one of four fiscal intermediaries for Medicare, issued a draft local medical review policy (LMRP) entitled, "Wound Care for Home Health." The National...
NAHC comments on LMRP wound care draft    Cahaba Government Benefit Administrators (GBA), one of four fiscal intermediaries for Medicare, issued a draft local medical review policy (LMRP) entitled, "Wound Care for Home Health." The National...
NAHC comments on LMRP wound care...
12/12/2014
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
Symposium Update: SAWC Exhibitors Preview
12/12/2014
3M Health Care - Booth 119    3M Skin Health offers a solution-based approach to help manage the cost and quality of patient care. Visit us at the Symposium to learn more about long-wear dressing solutions for sacral-coccyx ulcer management...
3M Health Care - Booth 119    3M Skin Health offers a solution-based approach to help manage the cost and quality of patient care. Visit us at the Symposium to learn more about long-wear dressing solutions for sacral-coccyx ulcer management...
3M Health Care - Booth 119  ...
12/12/2014
Wound Management & Prevention

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