Training and experience “I never had proper training in wound care and the experience I have was accumulated only by practice,” said Gigel Dumitru, an agency nurse who works mainly on general and ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In 2020, UF Health Shands Hospital nurses Cindy Westbrook and Randy Brian used their wound care skills to help keep oxygen-rich blood flowing through critically ill COVID-19 ...

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 ...

At the Wound Center of Tucson, we see patients from all over Southern Arizona, including many with complex conditions like ...

The ongoing nursing shortage is also limiting the pool of wound care nurses. “Nurses who are certified to care for wounds and ostomies are in short supply, at Kaiser Permanente and all over the ...

I went to get a wound seen, and the nurse said that it needed to heal from the inside. They treated it with gauze, wrapping and then a stocking. It took months to heal.