Transforming Wound Care: Educating Practitioners, Managing Diabetic Wounds, and Policy Impacts

Open Wound Research

Proudly sponsored by Open Wound Research, https://www.openwoundresearch.com/ Today we have the great Pamela Scarborough joining us. Pamela is well known in the wound care community as a fantastic educator and advocate for patients and clinician education.

Theme music is « Real as it Gets (Dirty Deed) », by Justin G. Marcellus

Links from the show:

University of Montana: https://www.umt.edu/

University of North Texas: https://www.unt.edu/index.html

Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society: https://www.wocn.org/

American Board of Wound Management: https://abwmcertified.org/abwm-cwsp/

Wound Certification Prep Course: https://www.hmpglobalevents.com/wcpc

F686 regulation: https://www.licamedman.com/ftag/643/f686-treatment-services-to-prevent-heal-pressure-ulcers

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:35 Pamela’s background and origin story

15:31 Going from beginner to specialist to expert

18:33 The most prominent areas of improvement in wound care

22:49 How Pamela chooses which research / technology makes it into her pedagogical pathway

26:59 Use of Electric Stimulation in nursing homes

30:38 Treatment of a 65year-old versus 10year-old diabetic patient

38:19 Regulations in long term care and the surgical dressings policy

41:54 F686 regulation and the future thereof

56:02 Closing question

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