Click here to learn more about the Opening Keynote session, Getting Clarity: Identifying Your Strengths to Shape Your Impact Click here to learn more about WOCNext About the Speaker: Debbie Peterson is a dynamic speaker and consultant who helps her audiences and clients make a bigger impact in their careers, businesses, and lives. Through her speaking and consulting business, Debbie travels the country, empowering professionals with the tools and strategies to go all in on who they are, what they do, and how they consistently show up to make a bigger impact in their leadership and life! As a r ..read more

Click here to view the article Skin failure: A historical perspective published in the American Nurse Journal. Click here to view the article Skin Failure: An Emerging Concept published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA) Click here to view the article Skin Fails Too: Acute, Chronic, and End-Stage Skin Failure published in Advances in Skin & Wound Care About the Speakers: Mario C. Giannettino is a partner in the law office of Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan, LLP in the firm's Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Long Care and General Litigation practice groups ..read more

Click here to view Vickee’s WOCN® Member Spotlight blog. About the Speaker: Victoria (Vickee) Ramik, MS, APRN, ACNS-BC, CCRN, CWOCN, has been a nurse for four decades, predominately as a bedside nurse and clinical nurse specialist in critical care. In 2010, she became tri-specialty certified in wound, ostomy, and continence care. Vickee retired from nursing in 2023 and does not have formal plan yet, but she will miss taking care of her patients ..read more

Click here to view the abstract for the poster “Put the toes in head to toe assessment” Click here to view the interactive ePoster for “Put the toes in head to toe assessment”   About the Speaker: Ivy Razmus, PhD, RN, CWOCN, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Detroit Mercy where she is currently teaching in the BSN Nursing program. Her research focuses on pressure injury prevention for pediatric patients including neonatal patients. She has experience as a Manager of Pediatric populations both neonatal and pediatric intensive care; as a quality analyst within a health system ..read more

Episode Resources: Click here to view the article “Impact of Co-occurring Cancer-Related and Wound-Specific Symptoms on Functional Performance Among Patients With Advanced Cancer and Malignant Fungating Wounds” published in the Journal of Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing (JWOCN) Nov/Dec 2023 issue. Click here to learn about the Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN®) certification. Click here to learn about the Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (ACHPN®) certification. Click here to learn about the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence CWOCN® certification. Click here to view ..read more

Episode Resources: Click here to learn more about the WOCN Fellow Program Click here to apply for the 2024 WOCN Fellow Class until March 4, 2024, at 11:59 PM ET Click here to access the WOCN members-only online Communities Click here to read Dr. Buscemi’s WOCN member spotlight blog Click here to read Dr. Pieper’s WOCN member spotlight blog   About the Speaker: Dr. Pieper, PhD, RN, CWOCN, ACNS-BC, FAAN, WOCNF, completed her WOC education at Abbott-Northwestern Hospital in 1989. She held a joint academic-clinical position, Wayne State University, College of Nursing, Detroit, MI, and the De ..read more

Click here to view the WOC Nursing Education Programs (WOCNEPs) accredited by the WOCN Society. Click here to listen to the WOCTalk podcast episode High Output Ileostomy Management Click here to view the webinar Pharmacological Management of the Individual with a High Output Stoma Click here to view the webinar Nutrition and Hydration Management of the Individual with a High Output Stoma Click here to view the WOCNext® 2019 session High Output Ostomies: New Evidence and Best Practice Click here to view the WOCNext® 2021 session Know about the Flow: Pathophysiology, Monitoring and Management of ..read more

Episode Resources:  Click here to find a United Ostomy Associations of America (UOAA) local support group throughout the United States Click here to download the handout from the session “Hopeless, Helpless, and Out of Gas: Mental Health and Well Being with Ostomy Surgery” Click here to view the WOCN Society’s Regions and Affiliates contacts and conference information Click here to view the online Journal of Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing (JWOCN®)   About the Speakers: Janice Beitz, PhD, RN, CS, CWOCN-AP, WOCNF, FAAN, is a Professor of Nursing for the School of Nursing-Camden ..read more

Episode Resources: Click here to view the abstract “Beautiful Tiny Stomas: Neonatal Ostomy Models” Click here to view the interactive ePoster for “Beautiful Tiny Stomas: Neonatal Ostomy Models”   About the Speaker: Nikki Bruster has been a nurse for 13 years, and a wound/ostomy nurse for more than 7 years. Nikki is currently pursuing her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP). Nikki’s nursing background includes pediatric and neonatal bedside and flight, Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), and now wound, ostomy, and continence! Nikki has presented posters at multiple WOCNext® conferences. Her mo ..read more

Click here to review a case study “Intraoperative Use of Soft Convexity” Click here to see the Hollister CeraPlusTM Product Portfolio If you have convexity-related questions for Rosemary, feel free to send an email to rosemary.Hill@vch.ca   About the Speaker: Rosemary Hill, BSN, CWOCN, WOCC(C), has been a nurse for over 35 years and is the recipient of the Award of Excellence in Practice from the Association of Registered Nurses of British Columbia. She works at Lions Gate Hospital as a Nurse Specialized in Wound Ostomy and Continence (NSWOC). Her past volunteer activities include Presid ..read more