Kathleen Wright, regional director of clinical services for National Healing Corporation, oversees clinical services at several National Healing wound centers in various parts of the country.

Wright has over 30 years of experience in nursing, including service with the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps, and administrative leadership in medical-surgical nursing. She has worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist for nearly 15 years with a focus in wound, ostomy, and continence nursing (WOCN). Prior to joining NHC, she served as Clinical Leader for the WOCN team at Nanticoke Health Services in Seaford, Del. Wright also has provided independent WOCN consulting services, and served as expert witness on WOCN - related medical- legal cases.

Wright is board-certified in wound, ostomy, and continence specialty, and in hyperbaric nursing. She has served as President of the national WOCN Certification Board (WOCNCB) and on the board for the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists. She was awarded the WOCNCB President’s Award in Advanced Practice in 2005. Wright was also peer-nominated and selected for the Excellence in Advanced Nursing Practice Award in 2003 from the Delaware Nurses Association/Delaware Organization of Nurse Executives. She has published and lectured extensively on WOCN and advanced practice nursing related topics.

Wright received a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Delaware in Newark, Del, and a master’s degree in nursing from Salisbury State University in Salisbury, Md. She also completed the Wound Ostomy Continence Nursing Education Program at Albany Medical Center in Albany, N.Y, with clinical preceptorships at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md, and Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Chester. Pa. Wright is a member of Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing, Delaware Nurses Association/American Nurses Association, Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society, National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, and the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society.