You would remember meeting Nancy Faller, RN, MSN, PhD, ET Nurse Clinical Specialist. Soft spoken (if emphatic), compassionate (if no-nonsense), her small stature and ponytails belie the wisdom and power inherent to and nurtured by her many years as a nurse. One can easily imagine her not taking any guff from either her superiors or her patients when she served in the US Army, whether during her first year as a staff nurse at the station hospital on Fort Knox, Ky, or her second year in Vietnam, where she received the Bronze Star for Achievement.

While serving at the 67^th Evacu

Intact skin provides a physical barrier to the ingress of micro-organisms. When skin is wounded, micro-organisms from the surrounding skin, other body sites, or exogenous sources have access to a warm, moist environment. Whether organisms survive and multiply depends on 1) their ability to evade the body’s immune system and 2) whether essential chemical and physical requirements are met.

Wound microbial contaminants may not persist,¹ but it has been shown that species that flourish may establish the states described as colonization, critical colonization, or wound infe

Although pressure ulcers are presumed to be preventable, their prevalence remains high. A 2002 survey of 55 German hospitals and nursing homes found that 25% of the hospital patients and 17% of the nursing home residents identified by the Braden Scale as at-risk had pressure ulcers.¹ These wounds are costly in terms of financial expense and human suffering.^2,3 Their prevention and treatment must be based on the best available evidence. To examine the regimens used to treat pressure ulcers in German hospitals and nursing homes, the treatment regimens used, and whether trea

The 2006 SAWC traveled to San Antonio, the eighth largest city in the US. The Native Americans who first lived along the San Antonio River called the area “Yanaguana,” which means “refreshing waters” or “clear waters.” Conference attendees followed the cobblestone and flagstone paths along this river enjoying the River Walk, a 2.5-mile welcoming mix of park, European-style sidewalk cafes, nightclubs, restaurants, hotels, and shopping sequestered 20 feet below street level. Of course, the city is best known for the mission where 189 defenders held off som