032: Wound Care The Hand to Shoulder Podcast

Open wound? Don’t panic, Nora is here to help! Join us with
Nora Barrett discussing how to evaluate, cleanse, dress and document all
different types of wounds. Nora organizes all the products that she recommends
for various types of wounds seen in a hand clinic. You will not be disappointed
in the takeaways and clinic pearls after listening.

 

Nora Barrett OTR/L, CHT, WCC
graduated from the Program in Occupational Therapy at Washington University in
St. Louis in 1997. She has been a practicing occupational therapist since 1998
and a certified hand therapist since 2006. She spent her early career as an
inpatient therapist at rehabilitation centers, acute care hospitals and burn
units in Boston, MA and Washington, DC before focusing in outpatient hand
therapy in Washington, DC, Baltimore, MD and Bend, OR. Nora joined the Hand
Therapy Team at the University of Virginia Physicians Group in 2021 where she
works in the Hand Center and in an outpatient hand therapy practice. She
received her Wound Care Certification in 2020 and is an active member of the
American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT) and the American Association for
Hand Surgery (AAHS). Nora co-authored the Wound Classification and Management
Chapter in the 7th edition of Rehabilitation of the Hand and Upper Extremity
textbook and the Physiology of Wound Healing & Burns Chapter in the 4th Edition
of ASHT’s Test Prep for the CHT exam.

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