Bowel and Bladder Matters Podcast

Role of a WOC Nurse: Independent care to private practice

February 22, 2021 Janet Stoia Davis, RN, CWOCN, CFCN Season 3 Episode 2
Bowel and Bladder Matters Podcast
Role of a WOC Nurse: Independent care to private practice
Show Notes

Janet works as an independent consultant in a private practice. In our latest podcast she explains what her role looks like and how she got into this position.

Guest bio:
Janet has 34 years’ experience in WOC nursing and has been certified as a CWOCN since 1985.  Her career began with a focus in critical care as a certified critical care registered nurse. In 1996, she began a private wound, ostomy, continence practice, first as a partnership and presently as sole proprietor practicing across the continuum with a focus on ostomy care and a passion for patients attaining their desirable quality of life. Janet runs three outpatient ostomy clinics serving different populations.

Janet lectures nationally and internationally, has co-authored both a home study course on Wound Management & Healing and an educational video on Common Perineal Skin Injuries, and published on Quality of Life of People Living with an Ostomy.  She participates in Ostomy and Incontinence Associated Dermatitis research.  Her peers awarded her the PCR ET Nurse of the Year Award in 1996, PCR President’s Award in 2000 and PCR Professional Educational Award in 2004.

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