WOCN
May 2024
WOCN
Wound and Ostomy Care Nurses
University Medical Center of Southern Nevada
Las Vegas
,
NV
United States
Allen Del Mundo, RN
Binky Pagal, RN
Brett Aguinaldo, RN
Cathy Downey, RN-Clinical Manager
David Tavera, RN
Diane Knapp, RN-Clinical Director
Dillon Potkay,-Moore, Office Specialist
Jair Padilla, CNA
Julie Constantino, RN
LaBreena Lenard, CNA
Lorjane Palacio, RN
Kadijah John, CNA
Madina Qadir, RN
Marisa Leah Dela Rosa, RN
Tania Anderson, RN
Tashfeen Tariq, RN
Summer Aromin, RN
Binky Pagal, RN
Brett Aguinaldo, RN
Cathy Downey, RN-Clinical Manager
David Tavera, RN
Diane Knapp, RN-Clinical Director
Dillon Potkay,-Moore, Office Specialist
Jair Padilla, CNA
Julie Constantino, RN
LaBreena Lenard, CNA
Lorjane Palacio, RN
Kadijah John, CNA
Madina Qadir, RN
Marisa Leah Dela Rosa, RN
Tania Anderson, RN
Tashfeen Tariq, RN
Summer Aromin, RN
This group is comprised of certified wound, ostemy, and continence care nurses and CNAs. This group provides many services to the hospital to help educate the staff, patients, their families, and physicians. Their main goal is to provide strong evidence-based care to help facilitate better outcomes, decrease length of stay, and decrease hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPI) in the hospital. They also provide an outpatient service to ostomy patients who have issues. These patients come to the clinic from many different hospitals and physician offices to obtain ostomy services. They help the patient and the family deal with the huge body alterations a person can endure. UMC is the first of all of valley facilities to offer Ostomy education and care for this service 5 days a week with a referral to receive this service.
The Wound and Ostomy Nurse provides services, treatment and education to patients with impairment of skin integrity or with altered bowel and bladder functions.
The team has monthly Skin Councils for the staff to participate in and become skin champions for their floors. They offer education before and after the meeting to provide extra education that the champions feel they need more help. They manage the hospital-wide prevalence with the assistance of the floor staff to show the good work we do at UMC. The team works with the physicians to provide negative pressure wound therapy NPWT) service house wide, provide wound consults at the bedside, feedback to questions from the staff, patients, families and physicians.
The team has created the WOCN team webpage on the intranet to help provide extra educational classes and flyers regarding patients with wounds, ostomy, and continence. They worked with Danny Romero (UMC Brand Manager) to provide quality information and flyers. We are very fortunate; we are able to provide education and paperwork in Spanish.
As a team, for the last 4 years have participated in the Research Day at UMC. 1 of the posters was accepted for the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Society.
The team has started an Ostomy Support group with HLI (Healthy Living Institute at UMC) and it meets monthly. It has the ability to provide English and Spanish assistance.
The team goes to many different conferences for wound, ostomy, and continence care. They utilize evidence-based knowledge to support UMC protocols, guidelines, and Policies. They help support trials for the prevention of pressure injuries, trialed NPWT companies, and many more things to help the staff at UMC provide excellent care to patients.
The Wound and Ostomy Nurse provides services, treatment and education to patients with impairment of skin integrity or with altered bowel and bladder functions.
The team has monthly Skin Councils for the staff to participate in and become skin champions for their floors. They offer education before and after the meeting to provide extra education that the champions feel they need more help. They manage the hospital-wide prevalence with the assistance of the floor staff to show the good work we do at UMC. The team works with the physicians to provide negative pressure wound therapy NPWT) service house wide, provide wound consults at the bedside, feedback to questions from the staff, patients, families and physicians.
The team has created the WOCN team webpage on the intranet to help provide extra educational classes and flyers regarding patients with wounds, ostomy, and continence. They worked with Danny Romero (UMC Brand Manager) to provide quality information and flyers. We are very fortunate; we are able to provide education and paperwork in Spanish.
As a team, for the last 4 years have participated in the Research Day at UMC. 1 of the posters was accepted for the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Society.
The team has started an Ostomy Support group with HLI (Healthy Living Institute at UMC) and it meets monthly. It has the ability to provide English and Spanish assistance.
The team goes to many different conferences for wound, ostomy, and continence care. They utilize evidence-based knowledge to support UMC protocols, guidelines, and Policies. They help support trials for the prevention of pressure injuries, trialed NPWT companies, and many more things to help the staff at UMC provide excellent care to patients.