Education and Training. 1  The Volunteer Patient Advocacy Training educates and empowers AIP members to serve as volunteer patient advocates for family members and friends, thereby enabling them to become partners in their own care. The training offers basic advocacy skills to help members gain access to quality care.
Remove any earrings that are currently in any ear piercing holes. Leave the earrings out of your ears indefinitely. This means never placing another earring through any hole. Eventually, the holes will develop scar tissue that will permanently close the hole for good. Examine the holes after the two to three weeks of wearing no earrings. For some, the scar tissue development will close the holes completely by this point. If the hole is not completely closed, wait an additional week or two and check again.. For some people with piercing holes that are 10 years or older, the hole will never close completely.
Leave the post in your piercing. Until the piercing has healed, taking the earring post out of the hole will only expose your raw tissue to infection. For ear piercings, the healing process typically takes 6-8 weeks.During that time, you must wear the earring you put into your new piercing at all times or risk a painful infection. You should be able to notice results in less than 3 months, but it can take much longer than that to heal the hole completely. 2  Expect mild redness and a dip where the piercing was for a long while afterward.