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CHRONIC WOUND CARE
Chronic Wound Care
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



Section 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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