Donna is a Certified Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse (WOCN) with over 45 years of nursing experience. After working for nearly 20 years in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, she became certified in Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing in 1996. She has worked in acute care, outpatient care and home care, providing consultation, assessment, and guidance in wound and ostomy care to patients from infants to older adults. Retired from her full-time position in 2022 as a WOCN after 44 years at Albany Medical Center, she continues to work periderm with the wound care team.
A longtime member of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing Society, she has presented at local and regional conferences on ostomy and wound care topics and has had many poster abstracts accepted at the national level.
Ms. Truland is a graduate of Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY (BSN) and St. Joseph’s College of Maine, Standish, ME (MSN). When not working, she enjoys playing flute with the Capital Area Flute Club and quilting with the Eastside Quilters (Nassau). She has two grown daughters and lives with her husband in Troy, NY.