Bowel and Bladder Matters Podcast

Different Roles of a WOC Nurse: Outpatient Advanced Practice Nurse

March 22, 2021 Jan Colwell, APRN, MS, CWOCN Season 3 Episode 5
Bowel and Bladder Matters Podcast
Different Roles of a WOC Nurse: Outpatient Advanced Practice Nurse
Show Notes

Jan is an Advanced Practice WOC Nurse working in an outpatient setting. In this episode she talks about her role at the University of Chicago and other APRN roles.

Guest bio:
Jan has practiced as a WOC nurse for 40 years, working at the University of Chicago Medicine, a 900-bed academic inner city medical center.  She directs and provides care to the outpatient ostomy population working in general surgery clinics.  She is a past president of the WOCN Society, and Friends of Ostomates Worldwide USA, is the ostomy section editor of the Journal of Wound Ostomy and Continence, the editor of several text books on ostomy care as well as the author of multiple journal articles.  She has presented nationally and internationally on ostomy topics and precepts ostomy students attending the WOCN educational programs.

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