Q: Why is it so important to assess the skin at admission? As a leader, you are in charge of financial stability, quality standards and patient care. After 11 months of hard work, you take vacation ...

Miami, FL / / November 23, 2025 / Kure Care a division of Veracor Group LLC Key Takeaways Medicare’s upcoming wound care policy changes will require a mandatory four-week standard treatment trial ...

“It’s why I’ve dedicated my work and my passion to taking wound care to a much broader direction,” said Jeanine Maguire, vice president of Skin Health & Wound Management Integrations for Genesis ...

Ministry of Long-Term Care pledges $3.7M for training more than a thousand nursing home staff on the best way to improve skin ...

Avulsion wounds of the skin are typically a severe type of skin injury. These wounds often require surgery to repair. While the treatment and care of avulsion wounds will depend on how severe the ...

Q: Why did you go into this career? A: In nursing school I was fascinated by the skin’s anatomy, purpose, and healing process. Later, as a Registered Nurse working in the hospital, I quickly became ...

Regularly inspecting patientsâ skin for abnormalities is a key step in pressure ulcer prevention. A skin module forms part of a new core curriculum for pressure ulcer education to enable nurses and ...

In a small clinic room at Mother of Mercy House on Allegheny Avenue in Kensington, Emma Anderson unwrapped a bandage from a ...

Skin tears can become chronic wounds if they are not treated appropriately, and are a growing problem as the number of older people increases. Abstract The ageing population means nurses in all care ...

An open wound is any internal or external injury that exposes internal tissue to the external environment. People can sometimes treat acute open wounds at home with medications and natural remedies.

Effective wound care requires the maintenance of optimal conditions for skin and tissue regeneration. Hydrogels provide many of these conditions, but not an alkaline environment. Now, in a ...

The Ontario government is expanding clinical training for long-term care workers with a new $3.74-million investment aimed at ...