Wound Care Nurse
Baylor Scott & White
I graduated from Texas Woman’s University in 2003 and began my career on a medical/surgical floor. In 2005, I was ready to learn something new and I transitioned to a role in an out-patient wound care clinic. I immediately fell in love with helping patients heal their wounds! In 2009, I obtained my wound care certification from the National Alliance of Wound Care and Ostomy and I facilitated the start-up of an out-patient wound care and hyperbaric oxygen therapy clinic. In 2013, I was asked to move to an in-patient wound care role at a cardiac procedural-based hospital and address their hospital-acquired pressure injury (HAPI) problem. Transitioning from an out-patient wound care role to an in-patient role was certainly challenging especially since the patients were at such high risk for HAPI development. My early tasks included identifying the extent of our facility’s HAPI problem, organizing an interdisciplinary skin champion team, and crafting a plan for HAPI prevention. The plan focused on evidence-based pressure injury prevention and staff education for my facility and others in our region. Over the years, I have been involved in several quality improvement and evidence-based practice projects and have had the privilege of sharing the results internally, regionally and nationally via podium and poster presentations. Additionally, our HAPI prevention results have been highlighted in our past Magnet documents. I am a member of our facility’s Staff Nurse Council, the regional Wound Care Committee, the system’s Nurse Research Committee and the system’s HAPI Committee. After earning my Master’s Degree in Nursing Education from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2019, I joined our system’s Nurse Scholar Program and am currently working on a research project with three colleagues.