How to Remove Shoes and Socks to Treat Your Client's Foot Pain

As a nurse, and even more so as an advanced practice nurse, I will have to remove my client's socks and their shoes to complete a lower extremity assessment. But when doing so, I began to notice that a lot of my clients' nails were very elongated or brittle. So with that number and hearing that there was no racial ethnic diversity of foot care nurses are there of color in this Northeast region, that stirred up something inside of me. "We know representation matters," she says.