The WOCN Society's Wound Treatment Associate course carries 32.25 continuing education contact hours across 14 prerecorded modules, and the certification exam that follows it runs 120 minutes. Add the 16 supervised clinical hours WOCNCB requires and you are looking at roughly 50 hours of committed...
Yes, and the reason so many practical nurses believe otherwise is that the two most visible wound credentials both require an RN license, so the first three pages of search results say no. Nurses asking whether LPNs can take wound care certification courses usually hit...
Drive thirty minutes in any direction from Muskogee, Oklahoma and you will pass long-term care facilities, home health agencies and rural clinics where the person managing wounds every single day holds an LPN license or an RN license without a bachelor's degree. That geography is...
Most nurses searching this phrase are looking for a single credential called "the gold standard," and that credential does not exist. "The Gold Standard for Certification" is a registered trademark belonging to the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing Certification Board, and it describes the board...
A charge nurse in a Muskogee, Oklahoma long-term care facility sat down last spring with a legal pad and wrote two numbers on it: $1,500 for a blended wound program with the exam included, and $250 again in five years to recertify. She then wrote...
The Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing Certification Board lists eleven separate credentials, and exactly one of them accepts a Licensed Practical Nurse. That single fact explains most of the confusion around what certifications do wound care nurses need, because the real answer depends on three...
If you have been searching for how to become a wound care certified nurse in Oklahoma, you already understand that skin and wound care is one of the most rewarding and in demand specialties in nursing today. Chronic wounds, pressure injuries, and diabetic complications are...