About WCEI

Wound Care Education Institute (WCEI) was created to fill a need for wound care education that was not being met.

WCEI founding partners Nancy Morgan and Donna Sardina, both RNs with years of practice, identified many improperly treated wounds in their nursing careers.  They discovered that there was a great need for wound care specialization, but a significant shortage of qualified wound care professionals.  They also noticed a lack of available and accessible wound care education programs.

With their shared passion for healing, Nancy and Donna started a hands-on wound care consulting company.  Finding they couldn’t be everywhere at once, and there was a limit to how many people the two of them could help, they decided that a better approach would be to provide wound care education in order to train as many health care professionals as possible.  That’s how the Wound Care Education Institute – WCEI – was born.

The mission and philosophy of WCEI is to offer these unique attributes unavailable elsewhere in the wound care education market

• To provide the highest quality wound care education possible, based on the most current standards of practice guidelines and evidence-based research.
• To openly share knowledge by making WCEI’s training available to any health care professional seeking wound care education, and by not limiting the training to only nurses or those with bachelor’s degrees in nursing.
• To focus on practical, rather than theoretical knowledge.  WCEI teaches its students what they need to know to impact care at the bedside.
• To drive knowledge down to the bedside because it is at the bedside that healing care takes place. It is at that level that wound care education is the most effective.
• To offer ongoing support to students beyond certification and to be an ongoing resource for standards of care in the wound care education field.

The Founders and Partners of WCEI

WCEI founding partner Nancy Morgan has been an RN for more than 16 years and a certified wound care nurse for approximately 14 years.  In addition to being a Certified Wound Care Nurse and an enterostomal therapist, Nancy is a nursing entrepreneur with an MBA.  She is a dynamic public speaker and international presenter who still conducts much of the hands-on training and wound care education for WCEI. Her motivational teaching style has inspired health care professionals across the nation. It was Nancy’s entrepreneurial spirit that led her to co-create the Wound Care Education Institute (WCEI).

Donna Sardina has 27 years of nursing experience and an extensive background in long term care.  She has been a wound specialist for ten years.   Donna attended nursing school at Angelina College in Texas and earned her Registered Nursing degree.  She also has a Master’s Degree in Health Care Administration.  She is a well-known writer in the field of wound care education, and is a regular columnist for several magazines including McKnight Long Term Care News and LPN 2009, as well as a contributing writer for Advances In Wound & Skin Care magazine.  In addition to writing much of the course material for WCEI, Donna has written several books and manuals on the topic of wound care education including the Wound and Skin Care Resource Manual, a popular industry policies and procedures manual and The Wound and Skin Care Pocket Guide Handbook. She has also written a new training module for pressure ulcer treatment as well as multiple easy-to-use reference guides on a variety of topics for clinical use.  All of Donna’s materials are available for purchase through Wound Central. Discounts are offered to all Wound Care Education Institute students and graduates.