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Summary:
Created by a team of interdisciplinary professionals, Wound Care Essentials: Practice Principles, 2e, is a comprehensive yet concise handbook which discusses all aspects of wound care from quality of life issues to legal and regulatory aspects to skin integrity. It describes wound healing, wound assessment, and treatment options available for all wounds from the simple to the complex, including sickle cell wounds. This essential resource stresses the importance of nutrition and pain management. The reader will understand the most important aspects of caring for pressure ulcers, vascular ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, as well as the unusual wounds that result from malignant ulcers, vasculitis, pyoderma gangrenosum, and calciphylaxis. The wound care needs of special population groups such as intensive care unit patients, spinal cord injury patients, and HIV-AIDS patients are identified and treatment options provided.
Customer Reviews:
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excellent and in-depth review of wound care
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this book gave an excellent review of skin A&P, wound care and prevention and treatment. photo's were excellent.
Wound Care Essentials --- Excellent Resource Guide
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This is an excellent and up-to-date resource book for anyone interested in wound care evidence based practice. Starting with the list of "Contributors and consultants" who provided content. This is a list of "who's who" in wound care practice. Next I find the chapters well designed with many "practice points" identified. Each chapter ends with a "Show What You Know" section of questions and answers. I have found the references to be extensive and inclusive of recent peer-reviewed publications. This 2nd edition would make a great reference text for any clinical setting.
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This book incluedes a large amount of very useful knowledge; however, it is not extemely easy to read. There are great charts and assessment forms within the book that are useful. Content is good.
Great assist for certification review
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Great book to use in studying for CWS or other wound care certification exams. Up to date information on wounds, healing and important topics for comprehensive wound management. Well worth its price.
Donna McClure BSN, RN, ACHRN, CWOCN
A great resource.
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Most wound care books that I have read have given a great deal of info on wounds to one degree or another, but this book also gives great insite to the psyco-social issues that our patients and ourselves as health care workers deal with in wound care. I have had patients with painful deep MRSA infeced wounds that I let undress and redress their wounds due to the pain factor. Not only did it make their care easier for me, but easier for them and lowered the amount of pain meds needed prior to Tx. My managers were not to happy with this until I showed them this book, and pointed out that with the right teaching for our patients, not only was there less trama/drama, but wounds healed better, parients learned infection control and were better prepaired to be discharged and safely care for their wounds at home. This book backed up my choice of getting patients involved in their wound care as well as some of my choices it my treatments. My DON was so interested in this book that I lent it to her. Needless to say I have not seen it for some time.
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