Colleen Dugan-Biedenbender

• Provide skilled physical therapy wound care in the inpatient and outpatient setting and lymphedema therapy services in the outpatient setting
• Deliver physical therapy services to patients in the acute care setting
• Present wound care education to coworkers and physical therapy students
• Supervise and instruct full time physical therapy student during a clinical internship in wound care
• Mentor physical therapists new to wound care
• Inform student observers of wound care and lymphedema evaluation and treatment, along with information for further education and specialization
• Participate and present in-services to staff on wound care from continuing education and/or patient cases
• Co-lecture a day of wound care education to a local university

Education Doctor of Physical Therapy students via lecture, lab and Q&A on the topics of wound management and lymphedema therapy.

• Provide resource physical therapy wound care services in the inpatient setting
• Evaluate and treat patients with wounds of various etiologies using specialized dressings and modalities, including sharp debridement, Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT), and therapeutic compression

• Provided physical therapy services to patients in the inpatient acute care setting
• Supervise physical therapist assistants, restorative therapy technicians, and rehabilitation aides
• Initiate, in conjunction with another physical therapist, informal patient rounds weekly with physical therapist assistants

• Provided physical therapy in the acute care hospital setting at a level one trauma center
• Covered the inpatient orthopedic unit/emergency department as needed
• Organized and implemented a quality improvement program in the Surgical/Trauma Intensive Care Unit, an evidenced based, multidisciplinary team approach to improve functional outcome of patients
• Participated as a member of the multidisciplinary team for the prevention of pressure ulcers in the acute hospital setting
• Lectured on Physical Therapy as a career at Hartford Hospital Career Day for high school students interested in medical professions

• Provided PRN physical therapy services in the acute care setting

• Completed an eight week rotation in Inpatient Spinal Cord Injury at VA-Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA from March 2007 to May 2007
• Concluded an eight week rotation in Outpatient Orthopedics/Wound Care at Mercy Medical Center, Mason City, IA from January 2007 to March 2007
• Completed a ten week rotation in Outpatient Orthopedics at SportsMed/Wheaton Orthopedics, Naperville, IL from May 2006 to August 2006
• Concluded a four week rotation in Medical, Cardiac, and Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care and Intermediate Care at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC from November 2005 to December 2005