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Wound care, stomatherapy, clinical nutrition
A nursing team by your side to treat wounds, support people with a digestive stoma bag, and ensure appropriate nutrition.
Excellence in Care
The mission of our clinical nursing team is based on three pillars — expertise, versatility, and resources — through which we apply a 360-degree vision. At the heart of the care pathway, we act as a link between the hospital, external partners, and the home. In complex situations, we anticipate, advise, and propose concrete solutions. Our goal: to facilitate each step of the care pathway and ensure a safe return home.
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A team with diverse and highly specialized expertise
Composed of nurses specialized in wound care, stomatherapy, and clinical nutrition, our team mobilizes advanced skills to ensure high-quality care. Keeping our knowledge up to date and sharing best practices with healthcare professionals are part of our responsibilities. Beyond clinical practice, our team supports patients throughout their care journey through therapeutic education, practical explanations, and logistical follow-up.
A key link in patient care management
We are resource persons, a connecting link within a multidisciplinary dynamic, both in the hospital and at home. Our role is to anticipate, prevent, and adjust the care of each patient with wounds, stoma bags, and nutritional tubes. We also strive to facilitate contacts, clarify follow-up, and support communication between the various stakeholders to ensure optimal continuity of care. In summary: we go beyond care — we adapt our expertise to each patient and bring together all healthcare actors around integrated care.
Our care areas
Within the hospital, we follow our patients during hospitalization and in outpatient consultations.Wound care: establish a care or prevention protocol for complex wounds, help adapt ongoing treatment, in multidisciplinary collaboration (physician, dietitian).Stomatherapy: follow-up of patients with a stoma (wearing a pouch), appliance-related issues, flow management, education, management of difficult drain fittings, discharge equipment.Clinical nutrition: enteral and parenteral nutrition (via a feeding tube or central venous catheter). The multidisciplinary team initiates it in the hospital and then adapts it for home care.
Our role within an academic hospital
Within the Brussels University Hospital (H.U.B), our team is actively committed to continuous improvement of care through training, practice evaluation, and the development of quality protocols via:Training (audits, evaluations, care protocols)Therapeutic education and connection with the patient-partner programPrevention and management protocols for complications (e.g., pressure ulcer prevention), risk factor assessment, and management of complex wounds through our expertise in innovative therapeutic approachesData recording
Our team
Head nurse: Asuncion Ballarin
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Clinical nutrition nurse
Erasmus HospitalAsuncion Ballarin, Stomatherapy nurse, clinical nutritionValérie Burion Jules Bordet InstituteIngrid Amorison
Wound care and stomatherapy nurse
Erasmus HospitalAgathe Ducrocq: Stomatherapy nurse, wound care clinicianEduarda Meira: Stomatherapy nurse, wound care clinicianVéronique Duthie: Stomatherapy nurse, wound care clinicianJules Bordet Institut eAurore Mauen: Stomatherapy nurse, wound care clinician, oncology specialistMarlène Pacheco: Stomatherapy nurse, wound care clinician
Resources and useful links
[HEALTH SHEET] Defunctioning stoma: understanding, living with it, and knowing …
