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Karen Kennedy-Evans, RN, APRN-BC, FNP

Karen Lou Kennedy-Evans was the first Family Nurse Practitioner in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1974 where she worked at a 500 bed long term care facility, the Byron Health Center, for over 25 years.  There she started one of the first skin and wound care teams in a long term care facility in the United States.  Pressure ulcers/injuries were ro

Karen Lou Kennedy-Evans was the first Family Nurse Practitioner in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1974 where she worked at a 500 bed long term care facility, the Byron Health Center, for over 25 years.  There she started one of the first skin and wound care teams in a long term care facility in the United States.  Pressure ulcers/injuries were rounded on each week with photographs and data was collected.  It was during this time the skin team noticed a particular skin presentation now known as  the “Kennedy Terminal Ulcer/Kennedy Lesion”.  Karen is a board member of the Post-Acute Wound & Skin Integrity Council (PAWSIC), and she is a past board member of the NPUAP now known as the NPIAP (National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel). Karen presently resides in Tucson, Arizona and is a consultant in Skin and Wound Care.


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