Rate My Professor Katrina Hulsdunk

Katrina Hulsdunk, RN, STN, with a Post Graduate Diploma in Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing, is affiliated with the Curtin School of Nursing, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, and the Wound Healing and Management (WHAM) Collaborative. She is also associated with St John of God Health Care, Murdoch, Western Australia. Her academic interests encompass wound healing interventions and stoma care education within nursing practice.

Hulsdunk has produced key publications advancing evidence-based wound care and nursing pedagogy. In 2025, she co-authored 'Low level laser therapy for healing venous leg ulcers: a WHAM evidence summary' in Wound Practice and Research, reviewing four randomized controlled trials on low-level laser therapy as an adjunct to compression therapy and dressings for venous leg ulcers. Findings indicated limited clinical effectiveness due to study biases and inconsistencies in outcomes like complete healing rates (ranging 18-58.1%), wound size reduction, and healing time, with no adverse events noted, leading to a recommendation against routine use pending stronger evidence. Another 2025 WHAM summary, 'Silicone gel sheeting for healing hypertrophic scars,' applied Joanna Briggs Institute methods to synthesize evidence for scar management. In nursing education, 'Exploring simulation and patient-led teaching in stoma care education: A qualitative study' (2026, Clinical Simulation in Nursing) examined undergraduate sessions with simulation and patient involvement at a 1:10 faculty-to-student ratio. She further contributed to 'Embedding specialist stomal therapy nurses into undergraduate work-integrated learning' (Journal of Stomaltherapy Australia) and the EDISON trial publications, including the protocol and statistical analysis plan for a non-randomised pragmatic trial on surgical wound complication prevention (2022, International Wound Journal). These works support wound professionals and enhance stoma care training through rigorous evidence synthesis and innovative teaching.