NR 393 Week 2 Discussion Topic

Week 2 Discussion Topic NR 393 Nursing history is not just about the past and famous people; it is being made by nurses every day. What nurse do you know personally who is making nursing history today? Describe the contributions that this specific nurse is making to impact nursing and nursing history today. One nurse that I personally know who is making important moves to impact nursing is the wound care nurse in my facility. The wound care nurse at my facility is named Jeanie, and her role in nursing is to evaluate patient’s wounds or ostomy sites and develop a treatment plan specifically for these patients to promote optimal wound healing. Jeanie is constantly conducting research into important tools to promote healing, such as the new wound vacs that we had just acquired, initiating the procurement of the purewick which is an incontinence tool for women that is connected to low suction to prevent incontinent women from developing skin breakdown, and educating nurses on ostomy pouch application and barrier products to prevent leakage and skin deterioration around the ostomy site. Ameritech (2019) mentions “Wound care nurses also help educate and provide care instructions for patients and families. Wounds often need continual care in order for the condition to properly heal. Wound care nurses teach patients and caregivers how to clean and dress wounds, and also what to look for in order to prevent any complications like infection”. Jeanie is a seasoned nurse who has learned to create arts and craft like dressings to cover and protect the most obtuse sized wound beds like for one of my patients whose entire abdomen was sloughing off because his ostomy was leaking bile. Jeanie came to the bedside with me on multiple occasions to try and piece together the most logical ostomy pouch placement and extended barrier on the rest of his abdomen because the patient was constantly in pain from the raw open skin wound. With her educating me, and then passing what I have learned from her to the next nurse aided in the continuation of care to properly treat this gentleman. In later months, the same patient had returned to the hospital for other problems, but when I looked at his abdomen, it was completely healed. The methods that she created to help this patient were continued in the extended care facility that he returned to and resulted in a completely healed wound. This greatly impacted the patient and family. Chamberlain’s Week 2 Lesson mentions the Religious Sisters of Mercy developing careful nursing, focusing on “physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of care” and while Jeanie conducted the physical aspect of treatment my dressing his wounds, she promoted emotional stability for the patient and family, as well as instilling a spiritual outlook towards healing (CCN, Week 2). With her continued research and education into better methods of wound care and prevention, we as nurses in the facility can create a better environment of healing for our patients. References: Ameritech College of Healthcare (2019). What to know about wound care nursing. Retrieved from Chamberlain College of Nursing (2019). Week 2 Lesson. Retrieved from