Manage Wounds with Pictures.
Pictures offer a way to examine and remember wounds, an expert wound care nurse can decide on a treatment or check the history to see if the treatment is working. In severe or doubtful cases she can send the pictures on to a doctor or specialist for advice. Often nurses take digital pictures for these purposes already. This system just makes the process easier and more convenient.
In a Long Term Nursing Home, the nurse needs to review the wounds of the residents in her care, to see which are improving and which not. There are easy ways to send the pictures from a digital camera to the file of each patient. In this way it's possible to keep a record every week or so to keep on top of the wound care in the institution.
Home Visiting Nurses do the bulk of the wound care for post operative patients and the pressure sores of the bedridden people at home. Weekly photographs keeps the whole team up to date on their status. The visiting nurse might send in the pictures by cell phone or from a digital camera at the end of the day, using the web interface, of uploading direct onto the office computer.
Family caring for a patient at home.
Often these just need a little encouragement and the security of the
skill and knowledge of a wound care expert. The easiest way to send
in these pictures is by the website, or as a simple email attachment.
If you are a Wound Care Expert you can go to the Woundcare experts only site to get started.