Nancy Crutcher

Background

About Nancy Crutcher

Wound Specialist: Provide consultation and treatment recommendations for patients with complex wounds, fistulas, or drains. Provide education to staff, patients, families and caregivers regarding skin care, wound management, and care. Provide guidance to staff to identify, control, or eliminate etiologic factors for skin breakdown. Ostomy Specialist: Pre-operative services include: counseling regarding planned surgical procedure, the impact of an ostomy on the patient's life, and the basics of ostomy management; sexual counseling; and stoma site selection. Post-operatively instruct the patient and family in ostomy care, dietary and fluid alterations, and ways to incorporate ostomy management into the patient's life. Provides long-term follow-up care in outpatient settings; such care includes ongoing counseling, education, and surveillance for complications requiring medical intervention. Recommend appropriate measures to prevent and manage skin breakdown that is related to immobility, friable skin, incontinence, and/or radiation therapy. Assist in correcting or containing fecal or urinary incontinence and in cost-effective management of draining wounds and fistulas.