Diabetic Wound Care at Home

Diabetic wounds need close, consistent attention

Diabetic foot ulcers can be serious. Diabetes slows healing and can dull the feeling in the feet, so a small sore may grow before it’s noticed. That’s why consistent, expert eyes matter, and why we come to you on a regular schedule, so problems get caught early instead of falling through the gaps between clinic visits you couldn’t get to.

How we help

• Thorough wound assessment and staging
• Advanced dressings and wound management
• Infection monitoring and prompt action
• Guidance on offloading pressure and protecting the skin
• Walking alongside your physician and diabetes care team

Helping protect against amputation

The goal isn’t only to heal the wound in front of us. It’s to help prevent the complications that can lead to hospital stays or amputation. Consistent care at home, and catching trouble early, is a big part of that. We stay with you until the wound is fully healed.

What a visit looks like

Every visit, your nurse practitioner checks the wound and the skin around it, measures whether it’s improving, changes the dressing, and looks for the early signs of infection or pressure that are easy to miss on your own. We keep clear notes your doctor can see, and we adjust the plan as the wound changes, because a diabetic wound rarely heals in a straight line. If offloading a pressure point or protecting a heel would help, we’ll show you and your family exactly how, using what you already have at home.

What to watch for between visits

You don’t have to be the expert. That’s our job. But a few changes are worth a call to us or your provider right away:

• New redness, warmth, or swelling around the wound
• Drainage that increases, changes color, or begins to smell
• A fever, or simply feeling unwell
• New numbness, or a fresh sore or blister anywhere on your feet

Checking the feet every day, tops, bottoms, and between the toes, is one of the simplest habits that makes the biggest difference. If that’s hard to see or reach, a spouse, adult child, or caregiver can help, and we’ll show them what to look for. Whoever you want involved in your care is welcome; we treat every patient the way we’d want our own family cared for.

How we manage your care

Good wound care isn't a single treatment. It's a process, followed the same way every visit, so nothing gets missed between one visit and the next.

• We assess first. On the first visit, your nurse practitioner examines and measures the wound, reviews your health history and medications, and looks at what's happening around the wound: circulation, pressure, moisture, infection, and nutrition all shape how a wound heals.
• We establish the diagnosis. From that assessment, your nurse practitioner identifies what kind of wound this is and what's driving it, because a plan of care only works when it's built on the right diagnosis.
• We build a plan of care with you. An individualized plan, built with you and whoever you want involved: the right advanced dressings for the wound's stage, a visit schedule, offloading or protection where it helps, and clear goals.
• We document every visit. We measure whether the wound is truly making progress, record what we see, and adjust the plan as the wound changes. Those notes keep your whole care team working from the same information.
• We coordinate with your physician and home health team. We share our documentation, coordinate wound care orders and keep them current with your physician, and reach out when something changes, walking alongside your doctors and home health nurses, not around them, until the wound is fully healed.

Related reading

• How to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers at Home
• Preventing Diabetic Wounds: Everyday Steps
• Reducing Amputation Risk Through Consistent Care

We verify your benefits before the first visit, see how coverage works, or request a visit and we’ll come to you.