Inside Duke Medicine
Meet a Great Nurse: Krystyna Dixon
posted August 11th, 2010Krystyna Dixon, an acute care wound nurse clinician with Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing at Duke Raleigh Hospital, is one of nine DUHS' nurses named a Great Nurse.
Krystyna cares for patients with wounds of all kinds. She is very proud of the new Outpatient Ostomy Clinic at DRAH where she consults and treats patients with wounds, skin and ostomy issues.
Krystyna has been a nurse for more than 25 years and says she still enjoys nursing.
She says there are many different avenues and routes available to nurses.
"I spent the majority of my career nursing oncology patients, and it got to the point that I felt I had done as much as I could do," she says. "I needed something else. I started in WOC nursing and it's the best change I've ever made in my life."
Krystyna traveled to Haiti with the second Duke Medicine team going to provide medical relief after the earthquake. She was involved with the management of wound and skin care for patients in Haiti.
She says she also provided education to the nurses in Cange. "We taught the nurses basic wound care. The Haitian nurses would partner with us as we did our rounds, and they learned different methods of advanced wound care."
Read more about the other eight DUHS nurses named to the Great 100 Nurses in North Carolina.