What’s New
What the NPIAP wants you to know about prone positioning and COVID-19 patients
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Expert Q&A on burn care: How can you help manage patient-reported pain and anxiety?
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Perioperative pressure injuries: tips to help reduce the risk and create a culture of skin health
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Biofilm: Why it matters to wound care and treatment innovations to fight it
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Expert Q&A: How telehealth affects you and your wound care patients today and beyond COVID-19
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NEW webinar with Live Q&A
Management of Chronic Wounds
Tuesday, July 14, 2 pm (CDT)
Thursday, July 16, 11 am (CDT)
Best Practices
Overcome three nursing home obstacles to help speed wound healing
When nursing home patients follow treatment plans, wounds can heal faster. Find out how you can support them. BEST PRACTICES | 4 MIN READ
Are you doing comprehensive skin assessments correctly? Get the whole picture.
How to get the best results when conducting a skin health assessment BEST PRACTICES | 4 MIN READ
Download 3 wound-specific handouts to help increase patient education and improve outcomes
Wound-specific take-home handouts help with patient education BEST PRACTICES | PATIENT HANDOUTS
Prevention & Treatment
Beyond skin tears: Clinical pearls for approaching post-acute traumatic wounds
Even though all wounds are different, proper treatment should be consistent. PREVENTION & TREATMENT | 3 MIN READ
What nurses look for in skin care products
Survey reveals the importance of product selection and its impact on outcomes. PREVENTION & TREATMENT | INFOGRAPHIC
Webinar — Incontinence Associated Dermatitis: Challenges and Innovations in Care.
PREVENTION & TREATMENT | 60 MIN WEBINAR
What’s on their plate? Learn how proper patient nutrition can improve wound healing
A comprehensive nutrition program includes both high-nutrient foods and nutritional supplements to combat malnutrition and help heal wounds. PREVENTION & TREATMENT | 4 MIN READ
Webinar – Lower Extremity Wounds: Venous Leg Ulcers
PREVENTION & TREATMENT | 60 MIN WEBINAR
Operational Performance
Riverside Healthcare: A case study on systemness
A healthcare system embraces standardization, starting with wound care. OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE | INFOGRAPHIC
Outpatient wound centers: Your questions answered.
A peek inside wound centers: Who does what? OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE | 3 MIN READ
Nurse leaders: Want to influence others to create a preventative culture? Here’s how.
Igniting change isn’t easy. Here’s what nurse leaders need to know. OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE | 4 MIN READ
Health economics: The right wound care products help drive cost savings
How choosing the right wound care products can help improve patient outcomes and save money OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE| 3 MIN READ
Creating a Supply Formulary that Works
8 steps to take to standardize and cut costs. OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE | 3 MIN READ
News room
- June 30, 2020N95 Respirators and Facial Pressure Injuries
The N95 respirator is an example of personal protective equipment (PPE) and can filter most of the smallest of virus particles. But there’s a troubling byproduct of this vital item many might not real… - April 27, 2020Medline and BandGrip Join Forces to Extend Reach of Surgical Wound Closure Innovation
BandGrip has formed an exclusive distribution partnership with Medline to expand market reach of the company’s unique patented micro-anchor skin closure technology. Orthopedic surgeons are expected to… - March 19, 2020New Thinking to Drive Quality Outcomes Around Skin Health
The last few years have brought monumental changes to the post-acute care sector with even newer regulations in 2020, like PDGM, that are impacting revenue and operational processes. This new payment… - November 18, 2019One Home Health Agency’s Approach to Self-Management to Drive Wound Care Success
Roughly $108.8 billion is projected to be spent on home health care in the United States this year. At the same time, the home health sector is experiencing huge shifts in reimbursements. Payment mode… - July 30, 2019Balancing Patient Mobility and Provider Safety
CMS considers falls by patients a “never” incident, meaning that hospitals where falls by patients occur risk jeopardizing their reimbursements. The risk of injury isn’t just limited to patients howev…
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