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Wound Care Essentials: Practice Principles, Fourth Edition
Sharo Baranoski
978-1-4698-8913-9 • September 2015 • Softbound • 8.375” x 10.875” • 608 pp • 349 Illus
The newly expanded and updated
Wound Care Essentials: Practice
Principles, Fourth Edition
is your go-to clinical guide to assessing and
treating the full range of skin and wound conditions--from common
to less common, simple to complex, and acute to chronic. This
comprehensive, easy-read handbook provides practical guidance on the
many aspects of wound care, including the legal, ethical, psychological,
and social aspects. This is an essential guide for advanced practice
nurses and nurse practitioners, nursing students, physician’s assistants,
dermatology physicians, family physicians, and physical therapists. Tap
into these evidence-based skills and care strategies, and handle the
complexities of wound care with confidence.
Features
•
NEW!
More than 350 full-color photos and illustrations
•
NEW!
Content on areas including: Chronic wound quality-of-life
and self-management care models; wound care regulations; skin
assessment and skin tears; fistula management; wound bioburden;
adjunctant therapies; pressure ulcers; support surfaces; nutrition;
palliative care guideline updates
•
NEW!
Chapter featuring 36 photos of wounds with test questions,
offering:
o An essential visual aid for students
o Crucial training aid for staff at wound centers and in every
health care setting
o Vital preparation for Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse
(WOCN) certification exam
o Step-by-step directions and guidance on wound assessment,
healing stages, treatment options, dressings, pain
management, legal and ethical issues, coping patterns, medical
documentation
o Patient management strategies for all wound types, including:
palliative wound care, sickle cell wounds, pressure ulcers,
diabetic foot ulcers, surgical wounds, and more
• Chapter features include:
o Assessment Guidelines
o Pre-Chapter Objectives; Post-Chapter Summaries
o Practice Point boxes
o ShowWhat You Know - Chapter review questions (with answers
at end of book)
o Patient Teaching boxes
Table of Contents
1. Quality of Life and Chronic
Wound Care
2. Reimbursement Regulations
Impacting Wound Care
3. Legal Aspects of Wound Care
4. Skin: An Essential Organ
5. Acute and Chronic Wound
Healing
6. Wound Assessment
7. Bioburden Infection
8. Wound Debridement
9. Wound Treatment Options
10.Nutrition and Wound Care
11. Pressure Redistribution: Seating,
Positioning, and Support Surfaces
12. Pain Management and Wounds
Wound Care Concepts
13.Pressure
14.Venous Disease and Lymphedema
Management
15. Arterial Ulcers
16.Diabetic Foot Ulcers
17. Sickle Cell Ulcers
18.Surgical Reconstruction of
Wounds
19.Tube, Drain, and Fistula
Management
20.Atypical Wounds
21. Wounds in Special Populations
Appendix
NEW !