Volume 51 - Issue 5 - May, 2005

Department

Letters to the Editor

05/01/2005

Dear Editor, I was a bit puzzled when I read the article: Pressure ulcer prevention and care: implementing the revised guidance to surveyors for long-term care facilities (Ostomy Wound Manage. 2005;51[4suppl]:7S–19S). The...

Dear Editor, I was a bit...

05/01/2005

Wound Management & Prevention

Department

My Scope of Practice: Confessions of a New Kid on the Block

05/01/2005

Robbie Sharp, BSN, RN, CWOCN, EMT-P, is fairly new to wound care. But in barely more than a year, she developed and implemented a plan to identify and manage wound care patients, helped implement a wound care group, helped plan and...

Robbie Sharp, BSN, RN,...

05/01/2005

Wound Management & Prevention

Feature

Empirical Studies

Clinical Quality Indicators of Venous Leg Ulcers: Development, Feasibility, and Reliability

05/01/2005

Studies on venous leg ulcer patients show large variations in the use of proven efficacious diagnostic and therapeutic modalities.1-4 This suggests that the quality of medical technical care — eg, provision of appropriate prevention,...

Studies on venous leg ulcer...

05/01/2005

Wound Management & Prevention

Column

Guest Editorial

Guest Editorial: The Politics of Influence

05/01/2005

My local newspaper, Long Island Newsday, does a fair job of keeping me abreast of happenings on my home front. It also features a few highly polished gems, such as Saul Friedman’s “Gray Matters,” a weekly column for senior citizens....

My local newspaper, Long...

05/01/2005

Wound Management & Prevention