The PAWSIC Podcast

Wound care, told honestly

Real stories and clinical insight from post-acute and home health wound care. Hosted by Jennifer Bierhup and Therese Laub. New episodes drop on the PAWSIC channel.

Healing is a partnership

Episode 03

Healing Is a Partnership: Joe Balusik

Joe Balusik has lived with a spinal cord injury since 1995, navigating decades of rehabilitation, chronic wound care, and the realities of healing from the patient's perspective. Hosts Jennifer Bierhup and Therese Laub sit down with Joe to explore his journey through paralysis, pressure injuries, and the partnership he built with his wound care team, and why listening to the patient perspective leads to better outcomes.

More episodes

Episode 02

Why CNAs Matter in Wound Care

Certified Nursing Assistants are often the first to notice a change in the skin and the daily front line of prevention. Hosts Jennifer Bierhup and Therese Laub talk with Isaac Zralii about why CNAs are central to wound care, and how supporting them strengthens outcomes across the team.

Episode 01

32 Years Without a Diagnosis: Amy Rivera's Lymphedema

Amy Rivera waited 32 years before her lymphedema was named. In our launch episode she shares her decades-long path to a diagnosis with PAWSIC clinicians Jennifer Bierhup and Therese Laub, and what every home health and post-acute clinician can learn from a story that should not have taken that long.

Clinicians on a mission to educate

Jennifer and Therese host Healing by Design because the wound care education most clinicians need is rarely the wound care education they get. Every episode is built around that gap.

Jennifer Bierhup

RN, WCC, CCM, iRNPA, FACCWS

Wound care nurse, educator, and PAWSIC clinical leader. Brings decades of bedside and home health perspective to every conversation.

Therese Laub

PAWSIC Clinical Educator

Clinical educator and co-host. Focused on translating evidence-based wound care into the realities of post-acute and home health practice.

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