Encountering Wounds in Acute Care: Surgical Site Infections

Julia C Paul¹, Katherine Zimnicki, Barbara A Pieper+1

• ¹Julia C. Paul, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CCRN, CWS, NP, is Associate Professor, School of Nursing Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA. At Wayne State University, College of Nursing, Detroit, Michigan, Katherine Zimnicki, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN, is Associate Professor and Barbara A. Pieper, PhD, RN, CWOCN, ACNS-BC, FAAN, is Professor Emeritus. Megan Tasker, DO is Medical Director of Inpatient and Outpatient Surgical Wound Care, Beaumont Spectrum Health System, Royal Oak, Michigan. Submitted April 4, 2022; accepted in revised form December 1, 2022.