Wound Nurse Salaries in the United States

Is a clinical associate professor at the Rutgers University School of Nursing in Newark, N.J., and a wound/ostomy/continence advanced practice nurse at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, N.J.

WOC nurses also offer education to patients and their caretakers on how to care for wounds at home and how to prevent infection and further injury.

This will typically require some additional training and education, and nurses may decide to focus on a particular sub-specialty of wound care nursing, such as ostomy or foot care.

Because the wounds treated by a wound care nurse are often chronic, they require close monitoring for weeks and months on end to ensure they heal appropriately.

That the wound certification process has gradually warped to accommodate the nurse entry dilemma does not justify the fact that it would be difficult for a wound care nurse to appreciate the cellular processes of inflammation and angiogenesis without college level biology and chemistry.