Encountering Wounds in Acute Care: Surgical Site Infections

Affiliations

¹ Julia C. Paul, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CCRN, CWS, NP, is Associate Professor, School of Nursing Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA. At Wayne State University, College of Nursing, Detroit, Michigan, Katherine Zimnicki, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN, is Associate Professor and Barbara A. Pieper, PhD, RN, CWOCN, ACNS-BC, FAAN, is Professor Emeritus. Megan Tasker, DO is Medical Director of Inpatient and Outpatient Surgical Wound Care, Beaumont Spectrum Health System, Royal Oak, Michigan. Submitted April 4, 2022; accepted in revised form December 1, 2022.

Julia C Paul et al. Adv Skin Wound Care. 2023.

. 2023 Sep 1;36(9):502-503.

doi: 10.1097/ASW.0000000000000022.

¹ Julia C. Paul, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CCRN, CWS, NP, is Associate Professor, School of Nursing Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA. At Wayne State University, College of Nursing, Detroit, Michigan, Katherine Zimnicki, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN, is Associate Professor and Barbara A. Pieper, PhD, RN, CWOCN, ACNS-BC, FAAN, is Professor Emeritus. Megan Tasker, DO is Medical Director of Inpatient and Outpatient Surgical Wound Care, Beaumont Spectrum Health System, Royal Oak, Michigan. Submitted April 4, 2022; accepted in revised form December 1, 2022.

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