Goals
- Promote Foot and Nail Care Knowledge and Certification
- Reduce the number of amputations of people with diabetes.
- Reduce the incidence of type II diabetes diagnosed among adolescents.
- Facilitate professionals to share and show what they know through podium presentations, written publications, and electronic websites.
- Incorporate greater health through lifestyle changes.
- Teach foot care for those interested in offering a service to families or elderly high-risk patients or those interested in an entrepreneurial nursing role
- Offer resources, references, and referral as appropriate.
- Incorporate hope instead of hopelessness with health care issues.
- Address physical, emotional, spiritual, psychosocial, and financial aspects of care through a Parish Nurse Ministry.
- Address issues of lower extremity edema as an impediment of wound healing.
- Facilitate use of negative pressure wound therapy for complicated “non-healing” or difficult to manage chronic wounds.
- Serve as an Army Nurse where called.