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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Stomathérapie, nutrition, soin des plaies, Hôpital Universitaire de Bruxelles H.U.B
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Stomathérapie, nutrition, soin des plaies - Hôpital Universitaire de Bruxelles H.U.B
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Stomathérapie, nutrition, soin des plaies, Hôpital Universitaire de Bruxelles H.U.B

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 program
  • Prevention and management protocols for complications (e.g., pressure ulcer prevention), risk factor assessment, and management of complex wounds through our expertise in innovative therapeutic approaches
  • Data recording

Our team

Head nurse: Asuncion Ballarin 

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Stomathérapie, nutrition clinique, soins des plaies - Département Infirmier - Hôpital Universitaire de Bruxelles (H.U.B)

Clinical nutrition nurse

Erasmus Hospital

  • Asuncion Ballarin, Stomatherapy nurse, clinical nutrition
  • Valérie Burion 

Jules Bordet Institute

  • Ingrid Amorison  

Wound care and stomatherapy nurse

Erasmus Hospital

  • Agathe Ducrocq: Stomatherapy nurse, wound care clinician
  • Eduarda Meira: Stomatherapy nurse, wound care clinician
  • Véronique Duthie: Stomatherapy nurse, wound care clinician

Jules Bordet Institut e

  • Aurore Mauen: Stomatherapy nurse, wound care clinician, oncology specialist
  • Marlène Pacheco: Stomatherapy nurse, wound care clinician