Staff and Faculty

Our Company- Synergicare LLC

 

 Janette Dietzler, RN, BSN, CWS, FACCWS

 

Janette Dietzler is the President and co-founder of Synergicare LLC. She is also the Clinical Supervisor of the outpatient Wound Treatment Center at St. Anthony’s Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Janette is the current President of the St. Louis Chapter of the WOCN. She is a Fellow in the American College of Certified Wound Specialists and she is a Regional Director in the American College of Certified Wound Specialists.

Janette has over 25 years experience in a variety of clinical settings, including home health, skilled nursing facilities, and managed care. She successfully designed and implemented an inpatient wound program in a 500 bed facility, following the project from conception to completion. She was a key member in the development and implementation of a new outpatient wound treatment center.

Publication and Presentation experience:

• Janette was a poster presenter at the 18^th Annual Clinical Symposium on Advances in Wound Care and at the 41^st Annual WOCN Conference in St Louis in June 2009 as well as at the SAWC and Wound Healing Society Meeting in April of 2010.
• She is a two-time presenter at the Missouri Show Us Your Best Conferences and a two-time presenter at the MO Hospital Association Annual conferences.
• Janette was also a 2 time speaker for the Annual Advancing Wound Healing for Hospitals & Freestanding Clinics on Implementing New Therapeutic Approaches & Product Advancement in Wound Care.
• She is the National Speaker for the Synergicare LLC Wound Care 101 and Wound Care 201 program since 2007. 
• Janette was published in the WOCN Journal in June 2009. 
• Janette travels extensively throughout the USA educating healthcare workers on wound care and prevention. 

Certifications and Professional Memberships:

·         CWS (Certified Wound Specialist) through the American Academy of Wound Management (AAWM)

·         Fellow in the American College of Certified Wound Specialists (FACCWS)

·         Regional Director for the American College of Certified Wound Specialists

·         Member of Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society

·         Member of Missouri League of Nursing

·         Member of Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC)

·         Member of Disaster Action Team for American Red Cross

·         Associate of the American Professional Wound Care Association (APWCA)

 

Charles Bogardus

 

Charles is the Vice-President of Synergicare LLC. Charles worked in Research/Medical/Technical Communications from 1992-2006. He managed a Fortune 100 big pharma research facility's in-house design/print group with a budget of more than $750,000. In this endeavor, he performed everything from technical communications thru optimizing a printer/copier fleet over four campuses for 1,200+ colleagues, ensuring smooth communication of concepts, methods, data & conclusions among a diverse, sometimes non-technical, audience. He has led communication/training doc efforts for multi-billion dollar spin offs & mergers. Currently Charles is responsible for training development and website operations for Synergicare LLC and working on special projects in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

 

The following individuals were instrumental in working with Janette Dietzler in the design, development and implementation of Synergicare LLC’s Wound Care 101 and Wound Care 201 classes.

 

Marge Groom, RN, BSN, CWOCN

 

Marge is a Certified Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse since 1997 when she attended Emory University in Atlanta Georgia for this specialty. Marge has 42 years experience in nursing from med-surge to obstetrics. Marge has experience in teaching certified Lamaze classes, working in the industry and preparing continuing education classes certified through the state of Ohio. She had the experience of being the only certified Wound, Ostomy and continence nurse in a 350 bed facility with a 100 bed long-term/rehab facility attached.  She has been a clinical nurse manager in a wound healing clinic with hyperbarics and is now working in a vascular surgeon’s office. She was instrumental in the development of the Wound Care 101 and a Wound Care 201 class currently offered through Synergicare LLC and has written other programs and presentations that have been presented both locally and nationally. 

 

Roxie Lupien, RN, WCC

 

Roxie began her nursing career on a surgical step-down unit and had her first experience with the KCI Wound VAC in 1996. Involvement in surgical wounds and her introduction to the Wound VAC ignited her interest in wound care as a specialty. She had the opportunity to join the Skin and Wound Assessment Team (SWAT) in 2000 at St. Anthony’s Medical Center in St Louis MO. The SWAT team managed wound of all kinds: dehisced surgical wounds, enteric fistulas, Ostomies, vascular ulcers, pressure ulcers, rashes, hard to manage drains and anything else the staff nurse had a question about. She spent two years in long term care as the wound care coordinator, reducing Pressure Ulcer incidence from 8.5% to 2% in eight months. As a clinical liaison for a local long term acute care hospital (LTAC hospital), she implemented a referral program from long term care to direct admission to the LTAC hospital for complex wounds requiring extensive debridement, intravenous antibiotics and wound care to improve patients’ outcomes. Returning to the SWAT team as the program manages provided many opportunities for personal and professional growth. She received her Wound Care Certification in April 2007 and was in a MSN program with a 2009 graduation date. She was instrumental in the development of the Wound Care 101 and a Wound Care 201 class currently offered through Synergicare LLC. 

 

Beverly Mittrucker, RN, BSN

 

Beverly has over 16 years experience in wound and Ostomy care working in multiple settings of healthcare from serving as a member of an inpatient wound team, to working as the primary Wound/Ostomy nurse for a large home health agency which services 3 states.  She is experienced in developing and policies and protocols as it pertains to wound care.  She has extensive experience teaching nurses in home health on wound and Ostomy topics through one on one education to developing and teaching skin fairs for all staff.  She is cognizant of performance improvement and quality management and is actively participating in benchmarking of data against national standards on wound care for the area in which she works.  She actively participates in clinical trials of products in her work setting and is very cognizant of the multitude of advanced wound products available to the clinician.  She is a member of the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Society (WOCN) and the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC).   

 

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