WOCTalk

Do you struggle with not having enough WOC nurses to meet the patient needs in your facility or practice area? The Wound Treatment Associate (WTA) and Ostomy Care Associate (OCA) programs can be a game changer. By training your front level clinicians in the basics of evidence-based wound and ostomy care, the reach of the WOC nursing staff can be extended. WTA and OCA trained clinicians can be your eyes on the ground to help identify issues when they first appear and provide early evidence-based interventions as well as give accurate first-hand information to the rest of the WOC nurse team and providers. During this episode of WOCTalk, we sit down with WTA and OCA Course Coordinators to showcase approaches to integrating the WTA and OCA programs into your practice.

Proper medical documentation plays a crucial role in the everyday lives of medical professionals. Errors and omissions, whether accidental or calculated, can lead to issues in care delivery and defense litigation--even when the care itself was properly rendered. In this episode of WOCTalk, we sit down with two partners from the medical malpractice defense group at White and Williams LLP: Debra Weinrich and Edward Beitz, to discuss being a witness, EMR documentation, legal issues and how medical professionals can protect themselves against medical malpractice.

This episode of WOCTalk is all about managing patients with high output stomas. During today’s episode, Diane Bryant, Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse for Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and Board Member of the WOCN Society sits down for a discussion with Dr. Mary Arnold Long regarding her presentation “Slowing the Flow: Dietary, Fluid & Medication Management of the Patient with A High Output Stoma” at the WOCN Society’s 50th Annual Conference. Keep listening for a deeper dive into the challenges of high output stomas that nurses, patients and their families may face.

On this week’s episode of WOCTalk we are featuring a discussion that took place at the WOCN Society’s 50th Annual Conference. During this episode Dr. Sunniva Zaratkiewicz sits down with Dr. Holly Kirkland-Kyhn and Oleg Teleten of UC Davis Medical Center to discuss their presentation: “Deep Tissue Injury: The Future is in Your Hands.” We hope you enjoy listening to their conversation regarding trends and their personal findings amongst patients with pressure injuries.

This latest episode of WOCTalk features Janice Colwell, an advanced practice nurse in wound and ostomy care at the University of Chicago Medicine, Past President of the WOCN Society and Friends of Ostomates Worldwide USA, alongside Jo Hoeflok and Christine Kim to discuss a session that took place at the WOCN Society’s 50th Annual Conference. “Development of a Patient Peristomal Skin Assessment Guide” was a symposia session that walked through the development, availability, and appropriate utilization of a consumer-based tool for recognition and management of peristomal skin complications. Keep listening to learn more!

In this week’s episode of WOCTalk, Dr. Kevin Emmons, current Board Member of the WOCN Society sits down with Dr. Barbara Pieper, Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at Wayne State University in Michigan, to discuss her session at the WOCN Society’s most recent past conference, “Wounds Among Persons Who Inject Drugs”. Keep listening to learn more about Dr. Pieper’s experience as a provider of chronic wound care to persons who inject drugs, gain more knowledge and additional confidence needed to help you provide care to individuals who inject drugs.