Wound Care Essentials (5th Edition)

Description

Awards

• Selected as a Doody’s Core Title for 2021!
• Awarded First Place in the 2020 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Medical-Surgical Nursing Category
• Awarded Second Place in the 2020 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Advance Practice Nursing Category.

Looking for an up-to-date, how-to, evidence-based wound care reference? The newly revised Wound Care Essentials, 5th Edition is the comprehensive seminal resource, offering the latest evidence, guidelines and information to assist the interprofessional skin and wound care team translate knowledge into practice.

A crucial guide for all skin and wound care professionals, this essential resource provides authoritative science and practical instruction on wound care best practices.

This must-have guide offers the latest, skin and wound care research-backed insights on prevention and management strategies…

• Three New Chapters—Skin, Challenging Skin Conditions and Lymphedema
• More chapter contributions from global wound care opinion leaders
• More (now 50) helpful color photos in the wound gallery
• Comprehensive end-of-book certification practice exam, including new review questions
• Chapter features that include: 
  • All chapters have been updated with the latest available research and educational enablers
  • Visual aids, mnemonics, tables boxes, diagrams. and charts to highlight key concepts
  • Practice Point Boxes – quick summaries of knowledge for best practices that assist in retaining knowledge
  • Show What You Know – review questions at the end of each chapter and answers with explanations at the end of the book
  • Patient Scenario – case studies that illustrate clinical data and discuss application of information
• Skin and Wound Care Concepts—every chapter has been updated with the most current international guidelines especially for pressure injuries and skin tears
• Essential content for training staff at wound centers and in every healthcare practice setting – ideal for updating skin and wound care policies and procedures

Table of Contents

1. Contributors
2. Preface
3. Contents
4. Quality of Life and Ethical Issues
5. Reimbursement Regulations Impacting Wound Care
6. Legal Aspects of Wound Care
7. Skin: An Essential Organ
8. Acute and Chronic Wound Healing
9. Wound Assessment
10. Wound Bioburden and Infection
11. Wound Debridement
12. Wound Treatment Options
13. Nutrition and Wound Care
14. Pressure Redistribution: Seating, Positioning, and Support Surfaces
15. Pain Management and Wounds
16. Skin—Challenging Conditions
17. Pressure Injuries
18. Venous Disease and Ulcers
19. Lymphedema: Complete Decongestive Therapy
20. Arterial Ulcers
21. Diabetic Foot Ulcers
22. Sickle Cell Ulcers
23. Surgical Wounds and Surgical Reconstruction
24. Tube, Drain, and Fistula Management
25. Atypical Wounds
26. Spinal Cord Injury Population
27. Adiposity and the Bariatric Patient
28. Pressure Injuries in Neonatal and Pediatric Populations
29. Palliative Skin and Wound Care
30. Wound Gallery
31. APPENDICES: Definitions of the EPUAP/NPIAP/PPPIA 2019 Clinical Guideline Strengths of Evidence and Strengths of Recommendations
32. Answers
33. Index

About the Authors

Sharon Baranoski, MSN, RN, CCNS-APN, CWCN, MAPWCA, FAAN, is a Board-certified, Advanced Practice Nurse specializing in skin & wound care. Her experience crosses all health care setting. She is a well-known consultant, lecturer, author and educator. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She is a former President of the International Skin Tear Advisory Board and the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel and remains an active member of both organizations. Sharon has received numerous accolades and awards for her 35 plus years of work in the field of wound care.

Elizabeth A. Ayello, PhD, MS, BSN, RN, CWON, ETN, MAPWCA, FAAN, is a Board-certified wound and ostomy nurse who believes in the interprofessional team approach to skin and wound care practice and education. A fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, she is an internationally known prolific author, editor, researcher, consultant (including to CMS) and innovative, interactive educator who is the current Co- Editor in Chief of Advances in Skin and Wound Care, President of the World Council of Enterostomal.