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If you’re a care coordinator, you’re a crucial part of Ontario’s home care system. You make it possible practitioners from different disciplines to work together toward common goals. You also work closely with patients, ensuring they’re always at the centre of their care. It’s not an easy job. Like nurses and family caregivers, you face the threat of burnout brought

Are you a wound care champion? Do you advocate for evidence-informed wound treatment within your agency or organization? Perhaps you’ve simply become interested in the field over the course of your work as a nurse. If you fit into one of the categories above, you’ve likely considered acquiring wound care expertise. Enterstomal therapy (ET) nursing—an area that also includes ostonomy—may be the

Providing high-quality palliative care demands a lot from health practitioners. While it’s true that care should always be patient-centred, these words take on greater significance during the final stage of life. For health care providers, sensitivity and compassion are key. Palliative patients often have unique pain-related issues, as well as pressing psychological and spiritual needs. Those involved in providing care

In the health sector, data is more important than ever before. Technology is allowing decision makers to collect enough information to see the big picture. Often, the result is better decisions that improve health care efficiency and benefit patients. But is this type of progress occurring in every field? Not equally. Wound care is a great example. Time and again,

If you’re involved in coordinating the care of complex patients, you know the value of communication. It’s something we talk about a lot on this blog, and for good reason. Today, technology makes communication easier than ever before. The click of a key or the tap of a screen can connect two people across the globe. Videoconferencing makes it possible

Health care practitioners have a tendency to overlook medical treatments that are no longer popular. It makes sense: when a treatment falls out of favour, there’s often good reason. But there are also times when medical practices that appear outdated deserve a closer look. Biological wound debridement is a prime example. The use of maggots in wound care has a

According to a 2012 study, one in 12 Canadian patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days. Why do so many people who have been discharged wind up back in acute care? In many cases, the answer may be faulty discharge planning and poor communication. Providing adequate care for a single at-home patient can be a complicated process—one that may involve

If you’re a nurse, you’ve made a commitment to lifelong learning. From the evolution of best practices to new products and treatments, there’s always new information to absorb. This is especially true in rapidly advancing fields—like wound care. Progress in wound care over the last two decades has been remarkable. Today, there are more educational materials than ever before to