Two Echidnae Podcast from Advancing Wound Care

This episode delves into the essential components that constitute effective referrals to wound consultants. Monika and Donna, advanced practice wound consultants and accredited lymphoedema practitioners, articulate the critical nature of comprehensive and precise information in wound referrals, emphasising that inadequate details can significantly impede the healing process. They explore the myria...

In episode 10 of the Two Echidnae podcast, we say hello to double figures and welcome in Advancing Wound Care. While we are still burrowing down into prickly conversations in wound and oedema management, we are launching our new logo, website and socials as we build out online education and resources to further equip clinicians with clarity and confidence. Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 01:23 The B...

Everyone (hopefully most clinicians) undertake wound images and measurements. Don’t get us wrong, these are important. But from our prickly position, they aren’t as robust in our clinical practice as many would like to think. In this episode Monika and Donna provide an experience informed conversation on the common issues with digital photography and unpack the reasons why these affect quality pra...

We are back continuing on the prickly conversations, this time about unhealable wounds. How is the ability to heal determined, and how do clinicians’ factor in a wounded persons goals and priorities, sometimes when there’s conflict with health care recommendations? We discuss if palliative wounds are the same as an unhealable wound and a range of ethical considerations when caring for people with...

We have touched on wound aetiology previously, however in this episode we dive deeper into how wound types interface with mechanism of injury and dilemas faced when there are multiple causes - what actually is a mixed wound?. We canvass all the major hard to heal wound types including incontinence associated dermatitis, pressure injury, skin tears, moisture lesions, chronic oedema, venous, arteria...

Wound education, the subject everyone wants, from novice to expert, but where so many barriers exist to getting it just right. In this episode we burrow down into a recent Australian publication discussing recommendations for undergraduate wound education. This is another prickly concept our listeners will have dealt with and have opinions on, no matter what your discipline, experience level or cl...

Compression, the topic everyone has experience with, an opinion on, and something to learn - including us. This will be the first episode of many on compression because there is so much to unwrap. We would love to hear your feedback on this one as we touch on so many points. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:00 How lymphoedema training has informed our practice as wound consultants 02:11 Looking w...

Join Mon and Don as we burrow into our journey's to wound consultancy. We hope you learn a little more about what has shaped us as individual wound clinicians, as we share some of our defining professional experiences as nurses. Timestamps: 00:00 Get to know us 00:56 Mon’s journey 02:38 High value education and training 02:38 Benefits of lymphoedema education and training in wound management 03:09...

We celebrate reaching 3 episodes with a lot more prickly topics affecting anyone attending woundcare. Join Mon and Don as we burrow into the issues inherent in reaching a wound aetiology - or is that a mechanism of injury? How confident are we? What are the barriers and pitfalls and are we setting unrealistic expectations for the everyday clinician in documentation that informs the care planning?...

Let's continue burrowing down into prickly conversations. Join Mon and Don as we unpack caring for the carers including the array of clinicians (nursing, allied, medical) plus formal and informal carers. Everyone plays a role in determining what happens to the person's wound. Timestamps: 00:00 Caring for clinicians and carers 06:56 The community nursing team, does it match the needs of the pe...

Are you a clinician interested in wound care? Maybe you're just starting or know a little about hard to heal wounds? Or are you more seasoned in your career? Perhaps you work in the community, aged care, a hospital or a subacute setting. Join Monika and Donna, 2 advanced practice nurses and lymphoedema practitioners, as we kick off and introduce our wound care podcast. In our first episode, we dis...