Wound Care
Bringing Comfort and Healing into Your Home
VNA Wound Care is designed to help you manage difficult wound, ostomy, or incontinence conditions, while allowing you to:
- Remain in your home
- Maintain the highest quality of life
- Minimize re-hospitalizations
- Develop increased independence
- Coordinate care with your personal physician
- Receive KCI Wound V.A.C.® therapy when needed
Specialized Care for Your Individual Needs
VNA Wound Care is coordinated through a VNA registered nurse with:
- Certification in Wound/Ostomy/Continence care (CWOCN)
- 33 years nursing experience – 20 years with VNA
- Years of hospital experience, both in ICU and general nursing
- Treatment focused on your:
- Disease and diet management education
- Healing
- Independence
- Overall quality of life
- All nurses are KCI Wound V.A.C.® trained
Professionals Provide You with Quality Care, Including:
Wound Care
- Consulting on all complicated wounds to allow you to remain in your home for wound recovery
- Recommending wound care plans
Stoma Care
- Visiting all new ostomy patients
- Visiting all existing ostamates with stoma complications
- Assisting you with self-management and choosing appropriate appliance(s)
- Instruction and assistance in ordering ostomy supplies
- Stoma site marking
Continence Care
- Providing consult for catheter management to minimize urinary tract infections
- Instruction in catheter care
- Instruction in nutrition/hydration in lifestyle management
A Teaching Approach to Patient Care
Essential components of VNA’s approach to delivering your wound care include:
- Professionally trained and certified personnel
- Timely communication with all involved in your care
- Teaching you to be independent in your healthcare
- Ongoing staff training
- Large resource of supplies
- After-hours unit for patients
The VNA nurse and treatment team will assist you and your family with:
- Recognizing signs and symptoms of worsening of disease
- Providing on-call nurse 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to assist with complications when on VNA service
- Advising when additional services might be needed
For more information, call 800-225-5862 or email gethelp@vnatexas.org.
