Wound Care: A Practical Guide for Maintaining Skin Integrity 2E - Softcover

Coleman MN Clinical (Wound) MNP (Chronic Disease) BNsc DipApSc PhD Candidate, Kerrie; Neilsen RN BHlth MNLead GCAP PhD Candidate, Glo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0729544451 ISBN 13: 9780729544450

Publisher: Elsevier, 2024

Synopsis

The second edition of Wound Care: a practical guide for maintaining skin integrity offers students and nurses a highly practical approach to treating acute and chronic wounds.

The book applies the latest evidence and theory to the real world, helping you develop skills and knowledge to manage wounds effectively. Each chapter provides an overview of specific wound types, followed by case studies to help you build your clinical reasoning skills, and related multiple choice questions to test your knowledge.

Editors Kerrie Coleman and Glo Neilsen have worked with a skilled team of clinical experts to completely refresh and update this edition, incorporating latest developments, tips, strategies and wound care products.

• Up-to-date and contemporary advice for Australia and New Zealand - ideal for students and nurses
• Packed full of evidence-based tips on wound care
• Focus on clinical reasoning, critical thinking and person-centred care
• Clearly presented information - concise and easy to navigate
• Case studies include an assessment and management approach to assist in developing effective clinical application of wound care theory
• Full colour photographs and illustrations to help you familiarise yourself with a variety of wound types
• A nursing focus with a multidisciplinary approach to help enhance the ‘real-world’ experience of wound care

Instructor resources on Evolve:

• Answers to Case Study questions
• Image collection

Student and Instructor resources on Evolve:

• Self-assessment quizzes
• Quick reference list of local wound care products/dressings

About this title

About the Authors

Kerrie Coleman is a Nurse Practitioner in wound management and was involved in setting up the Skin Integrity Service at the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital. Kerrie has approximately 30 years' experience in wound management and has worked primarily in tertiary hospitals in NSW and Qld. She manages an outpatient wound clinic, provides inpatient consultations and is a resource for the local health service district and across Queensland. She has completed a Masters in Wound Care and NP Chronic Disease and is a PhD candidate in wound care. In 2016 Kerrie was awarded the Ian McFarlane Award for nursing excellence in clinical education and clinical practice.

Glo Nielsen is a former nursing lecturer at Central Queensland University working with undergraduate and diploma nursing students. Her experience commencing in the 1970s spans surgical nursing and working in tertiary, regional, and aged care settings within Australia. This practice is delivered in diverse settings and meets environmental and patient needs. As an educator undertaking her PhD in wound care, Glo knows that clinicians need to be armed with practical skills, and effective, holistic wound care must respond to evidence based practice. This practice can be challenging and must meet environmental and patient needs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0729544451
• ISBN 13: 9780729544450
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 196