Mary Foote, RN, CEO, is the Chief Executive Officer, Owner, as well as registered nurse at Wound Care on Wheels Inc, a hospital and health care company located in Naperville, Illinois. She comes with 40 years of experience in wound care, ostomy and continence nursing and has been with the company since 1997, which is almost 30 years of her career in the healthcare industry. Mary Foote was driven to become successful in her exceptionally challenging specialty by her passion for this particular field, her prediction on what’s right and her simply falling into nursing. A nursing tri-specialty, wound, ostomy and continence nursing is concerned with the treatment of patients living with acute and chronic wounds, patients with continence conditions, and patients with an ostomy and. WOC nurses use evidence-based knowledge and skills to manage these complex patients. Mary Foote as all nurse working in this specialty are frequently referred to as wound, ostomy, continence nurses, or simply WOC nurses. In the United States, such nurses are certified by the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing Certification Board. There are so many types of wounds ranging from the least severe damage of the skin, namelyabrasions, lacerations, rupture injuries, punctures, and penetrating wounds to the more complex cases where patients have had some kind of bowel or bladder diversion (ostomy) or patients suffer from bladder and bowel control and the associated skin care issues. For more information about Mary Foote, RN, CEO, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/pub/mary-foote/8/617/885. Mary Foote, RN, CEO, has the education, training, and expertise to be able to deliver superior WOC nursing at the highest levels of quality in a variety of healthcare settings, which may include long-term care facilities, hospitals or outpatient clinics. Typically, a WOC nurse handles patients who have acute or chronic wounds, fistulas or ostomies. For patients with an ostomy, it is more than a physical adaptation to a surgically created opening in the abdomen that allows waste or urine to leave the body (an ostomy). It is a psychological challenge to adapt to various forms of ostomy that may affect the patient’s emotional and social life in so many ways, i.e. Mary Foote and all nurses trained as a WOC nurse may be found assisting patients with other bowel or bladder disorders as well. Many wounds are superficial and need local first aid, including cleansing and dressing. However, other wounds are deeper and therefore require medical attention in order to prevent loss of function and especially infection. Loss of function can occur because of the damage of the underlying structures like muscle, bone, arteries, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. Ultimately, WOC nurses such as Mary Foote, RN, CEO, have only one goal in the medical care they provide: to preserve function and prevent complications. Although the aesthetic results are important in wound care, they are not the primary concern of wound repair. Mary Foote, RN, CEO, is a registered nurse with a bachelor’s degree of arts in neurology received from Loyola University Chicago. She additionally holds a Master’s Degree of Arts from DePaul University, a public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois and the flagship of the University of Illinois system. Mary Foote also completed a PhD at the University of Illinois. Her certificates’ portfolio comprises the titles of ANP-BC - Adult Nurse Practitioner-Board Certified, CWOCN - Certified Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurse, and TNCC-P - Trauma Nursing Core Course Provider. Mary is a member of the Illinois Society for Advanced Practice Nursing, which a clear reflection of her consistent and constant desire to remain at the forefront of her challenging field. She also acts as Clinical Advisor for the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society Journal. Moreover, The International Nurses Association has recently included Mary Foote, RN, BA, MA, PhD, CEO, into their premier publication The Worldwide Leaders in Healthcare.
