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A Problem-Based Learning Approach
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By
Moya Morison, BA, BSc(Hons), MSc, PhD, PGCE, RGN, Formerly Chair, School of Nursing, University of Abertay, Dundee, UK
Liza Ovington, PhD, CWS, Ovington & Associates Inc, Pittsburgh, USA
Kay Wilkie, Nursing lecturer, University of Abertay, Dundee
Description
This resource is designed to help both students and professionals take a self-directed, problem-solving approach in finding answers to
problems encountered in daily practice. Case studies present a clinical wound care situation and encourage readers to research the solution
using resources from specific chapters in the book, the internet, and other references. The research skills featured in this valuable
learning tool will be used time and time again by wound care professionals seeking answers to tough cases and striving to provide superior
patient care.
Audience
Undergraduate/diplomate nursing students (all students to wound care); nursing lecturers; post-registration nurses and specialist nurses
Contents
Section 1 Introduction
1. A new approach to learning how to care for patients with wounds
2. What is
problem-based learning?
3. Identifying your learning needs
4. Finding information
5. A framework for patient
assessment and care planning
Section 2 Case Studies
A Pressure ulcers
B Ulcers of the leg and
foot
C Chronic wounds associated with malignancy
D Other chronic wounds
E Trauma
F Surgery
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3 Wound management principles and resources
A General principles
6. The physiology of wound healing
7. Wound infection: diagnosis and management
8. Dressings and cleansing agents
9. Adjuvant therapies: ultrasound,
laser therapy, electrical stimulation, hyperbaric oxygen and negative pressure therapy
10. Dermatological aspects of wound healing
11. Nutritional assessment, assessment and support
12. Pain assessment and management
13. Health promotion and
patient education
B Wound types
14. Pressure ulcers
15. Leg ulcers
16. Other chronic wounds
17. Trauma and wound care
C Professional issues
18. Social and psychological issues
19. Ethical
issues
20. Practice development and the role of the advanced practice nurse
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 352 pages, publication date: FEB-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-7234-3235-7
ISBN-10: 0-7234-3235-X
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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