Toe-level health has gained recent strides thanks to nurses trained in what’s called medical-grade foot care. It’s eased foot pain for Spokane’s Val Hughes, 74, a retired nurse who learned of the ...

What, you may wonder, is a wound, ostomy, continence, foot care nurse? Most people who ask what I do have had some type of experience with wound care, even if only an accidental cut, scrape or burn.

Cheristi Cognetta-Rieke, DNP, RN, vice chair for nursing at the Mayo Clinic, says nursing documentation is undergoing a "fundamental shift." At the 2026 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exposition in ...