Shantia McCoy-Jones, MSN, RN, CRNP, CWCN, is the Office of Nursing Service Clinical Nurse Advisor for the Pressure Injury Prevention & Management Field Advisory Committee. She is field based at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA where she serves as the Wound Specialist for Geriatric and Extended Care. She has over 20 years’ experience in nursing and wound care. Shantia began her career in critical care but realized early that her passion was education and wound care. Shantia earned a BSN from Mansfield University and a MSN in Adult Health Nurse Practitioner and post masters in Family Nurse Practitioner; Nursing Education; and Wound, Ostomy and Continence nursing from La Salle University. She is a doctoral candidate (PhD) in Nursing Science at Widener University School of Nursing and a Jonas Foundation Nurse Leader Scholar (2016-18).
Shantia’s passion for Veterans’ health and wound care management lead her to the VA where she currently manages Veterans with skin and wound complications. As a subject matter expert for pressure injury prevention, Shantia assisted in the development of two new mobile apps, VA Pressure Ulcer/Injury Resource (VA PUR/release July 2017) and the Skin Check app (tentative release 2018-19). Shantia hopes to use her research to educate nurses on the use of mobile technology to improve health outcomes of Veterans with pressure injuries.
She has led her Field Advisory Committee in collaborating on projects with Office of Informatics & Information Governance/Health Informatics, and Office of the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer to develop skin and wound terminology data for Veteran Centric Clinical Documentation (VCCD). She collaborated with ONS; the VHA Office of Quality, Safety, and Value/Product Effectiveness; Office of Innovation and the Office of Connected Care in application revisions and testing, development of educational resources (YouTube videos, handouts, user guide and manual) and marketing material for the VA PUR app.
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