Wound Care

Wound Care: a practical guide for maintaining skin integrity is a contemporary ANZ resource designed to assist students and clinicians in applying evidence-based wound care to practice.

Written by expert wound care clinicians and academics, the text offers a range of clinical scenarios to test wound care knowledge and skills within the context of real-world settings. It presents a problem-solving approach to encourage students and practising nurses to critically think about how to deliver wound care to individuals with a range of acute and chronic wounds.

Including the most recent local dressings and wound care products, Wound Care: a practical guide for maintaining skin integrity reinforces the principles of wound care and provides the necessary tools for students and clinicians to determine how best to deliver effective nursing care.

1. Principles of Wound Healing
2. Wound healing journey
3. Healable vs non-healable wounds
4. Traumatic wounds
5. Surgical wounds
6. Cellulitis
7. Malignant wounds
8. Skin integrity issues
9. Conditions affecting the lower limbs
10. Management of the diabetic foot
11. Indigenous and tropical wounds
12. How to individualise your wound management plan