Lisa B. Wallin, NP

Wound Specialty Career
Healing of wounds is an old art of both medical and nursing sciences. However, until recent times care for non-healing, chronic wounds was limited to pain relief and simple dressings with limited focus on resolution and healing. Patients were left with debilitating and dis...

Wound Specialty Career
Healing of wounds is an old art of both medical and nursing sciences. However, until recent times care for non-healing, chronic wounds was limited to pain relief and simple dressings with limited focus on resolution and healing. Patients were left with debilitating and disfiguring ulcers and little hope of healing. When I started my nursing career over 30 years ago these patient were treated with home remedies such as Maalox and sugar or dry heat to desiccate these tissues. Much progress and promising new treatments have been developed to promote healing and improve the lives of these patients. This new road towards advanced sciences and improved outcomes has been very exciting and interesting to me as an advanced nurse practitioner and wound specialist. I can now use human skin grown in a lab or add growth factors and other advanced modalities to promote healing and hope for recovery. I greatly enjoy the ability to heal and vastly improve the lives of my patients. The satisfaction of seeing a painful non-healing wound transform in to precious new living tissues is very gratifying. Wound healing is indeed a healing art and a rewarding career.

As a Adult Nurse Practitioner with more than 20 years of experience with chronic wound management I have developed my career as an advanced wound specialist. I initiated my career path towards this specialty with the combination of experience and expertise in the underlying pathology and etiology of...

As a Adult Nurse Practitioner with more than 20 years of experience with chronic wound management I have developed my career as an advanced wound specialist. I initiated my career path towards this specialty with the combination of experience and expertise in the underlying pathology and etiology of the chronic wound. My past work experience in both hospital and home care settings knit together a profound understanding of cause and prevention in the chronic wound population and allowed me to develop a clinical expertise to promote healing. Together with evidence based practice guidelines, development of skill sets in surgical debridement and understanding the process in the stages of wound healing I promote the healing process. As a educator I lecture and precept advanced nursing and medical students