By Ruth Bryant, RN, MS, CWOCN and Denise Nix, RN, MS, CWOCN
Acute & Chronic Wounds, 6th Edition provides the latest diagnostic and treatment guidelines to help novice to expert clinicians provide evidence-based, high-quality care for patients with wounds. This textbook presents an interprofessional approa
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Acute & Chronic Wounds, 6th Edition provides the latest diagnostic and treatment guidelines to help novice to expert clinicians provide evidence-based, high-quality care for patients with wounds. This textbook presents an interprofessional approach to maintaining skin integrity and managing the numerous types of skin damage, including topics that range from the physiology of wound healing, general principles of wound management, special patient populations, management of percutaneous tubes, and specific care instructions to program development. Written by respected wound experts Ruth Bryant and Denise Nix, this bestselling reference also provides excellent preparation for all wound certification exams.
Acute & Chronic Wounds, 6th Edition provides the latest diagnostic and treatment guidelines to help novice to expert clinicians provide evidence-based, high-quality care for patients with wounds. This textbook presents an interprofessional approach to maintaining skin integrity and managing the numerous types of skin damage, including topics that range from the physiology of wound healing, general principles of wound management, special patient populations, management of percutaneous tubes, and specific care instructions to program development. Written by respected wound experts Ruth Bryant and Denise Nix, this bestselling reference also provides excellent preparation for all wound certification exams.
New to this edition
NEW! Chapters
on Postacute Care Settings; Telehealth and Wound Management; Quality Tracking Across the Continuum; and Medications and Phytotherapy: Impact on Wounds provide evidence-based coverage of these important topics.
UPDATED! Consolidated pressure injuries content puts everything you need to know into one chapter.
Expanded full-color insertincludes 50 new images — for a total of 95 color plates with more than 160 images — that visually reinforce key concepts.
New information presents the latest developments in biofilm assessment and management, topical oxygen therapy, skin manifestations related to COVID-19, and strategies to enhance engagement, as well as updated product photos and more authors who are clinical experts and providers.
Key Features
Comprehensive approach
addresses the prevention and management of acute and chronic wounds, making it the preeminent resource for skin health and wound management across all disciplines involved in wound care, from novice to expert.
Learning Objectives at the beginning of each chapter emphasize the most important content.
Clinical Consult feature in each chapter provides a synthesis of the chapter content, illustrating how to assess, manage, and document a realistic clinical encounter using the ADPIE or SBAR framework.
Checklists provide a concise list of actions necessary to achieve the best patient care outcomes or satisfy a particular objective.
Practical tools and algorithms help in performing risk assessment, differential diagnosis, classification, treatment, and documentation.
Coverage of practice development issues addresses outcomes and productivity in agencies and institutions, home care, acute care, long-term care, and long-term acute care settings.
Self-assessment questions help you test your knowledge and prepare for certification exams.
Helpful appendices provide answers to self-assessment questions, as well as various tools, policies and procedures, competencies, patient and family education guidance, and more.
Author Information
By Ruth Bryant, RN, MS, CWOCN, Partner, Bryant Rolstad Consultants, LLC
Program Director, webWOC Nursing Education Program
Minneapolis, MN; Denise Nix, RN, MS, CWOCN, President, Nix Consulting Inc. and WOC Nurse Specialist, Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital, Minneapolis MN
SECTION 1: Foundations 1. Principles for Practice Development to Facilitate Outcomes and Productivity 2. Billing, Reimbursement, and Setting Up an Outpatient Clinic 3. Postacute Care Settings 4. Telehealth and Wound Management 5. Patient Engagement and Noncompliance SECTION 2: Assessment 6. Quality Tracking Across the Continuum 7. Anatomy and Physiology of Skin and Soft Tissue 8. Wound-Healing Physiology and Factors that Affect the Repair Process 9. Types of Skin Damage and Differential Diagnosis 10. Skin and Wound Inspection and Assessment SECTION 3: Pressure Injuries 11. Pressure Injuries 12. Pressure Redistribution Support Surfaces SECTION 4: Lower Extremity Wounds 13. Lower Extremity Assessment 14. Arterial Ulcers 15. Venous Leg Ulcerations 16. Lymphedema 17. Neuropathic Wounds: The Diabetic Wound 18. Foot and Nail Care SECTION 5: Wound Bed Preparation 19. Wound Infection and Bioburden: Detection and Management 20. Wound Debridement 21. Principles of Wound Healing and Topical Management SECTION 6: Biophysical and Biologic Agents 22. Cellular- and/or Tissue-Based Products for Wounds 23. Molecular and Cellular Regulators 24. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy 25. Hyperbaric Oxygenation 26. Electrical Stimulation 27. Ultraviolet Light and Ultrasound SECTION 7: Cofactors to Wound Healing 28. Wound Pain 29. Nutritional Assessment and Support 30. Medications and Phytotherapy: Impact on Wounds 31. Perfusion, Oxygenation, and Incision Care SECTION 8: Special Populations 32. Uncommon Wounds and Manifestations of Intrinsic Disease 33. Traumatic Wounds: Bullets, Blasts, and Vehicle Crashes 34. Burns 35. Reconstructive Surgery 36. Skin Care Needs of the Patient with Obesity 37. Unique Skin Care Needs of the Neonatal and Pediatric Patient 38. Managing Wounds in Palliative Care and End of Life 39. Management of Draining Wounds and Fistulas 40. Percutaneous Tube Management Appendix A: Examples of Tools to Support Skin and Wound Care Appendix B: Self-Assessment Answers Index
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