Enhance your wound care expertise with the visually rich and thoroughly updated Wound Care Made Incredibly Visual!®, 3rd Edition. This comprehensive resource is designed to help you deliver effective wound care with confidence, guided by expert insights and vivid, full-color wound graphics.
Dive into the essential concepts, skills, and treatments necessary for achieving positive wound care outcomes. Stay at the forefront of the field with the latest products and procedures detailed in this colorfully illustrated text. Whether you're in the classroom or on the unit, this book makes learning enjoyable and effective through clear explanations and an abundance of images that walk you through the crucial steps of wound care.
Understand the basics and complexities of wound care with:
- NEW and updated photos and graphics that enhance your learning experience.
- NEW and updated content reflecting the most current wound care techniques and interventions.
- Hundreds of colorful images that simplify the complexities of wound care—detailed photos, charts, and drawings that elucidate and reinforce key concepts in memorable ways.
- Clear, concise text that breaks down the fundamentals and latest advancements in wound care into easily understandable terms.
- Perfect for visual learners, with numerous images demonstrating skills and interventions, covering:
- Skin anatomy and physiology—exploring skin layers and their functions.
- Wound healing—understanding types of wound healing, healing phases, and potential complications.
- Wound assessment—learning to recognize failure to heal.
- Effects of aging on wound healing.
- Distinguishing between acute and chronic wounds.
- Pressure injuries.
- Vascular ulcers.
- Diabetic foot ulcers.
- Malignant wounds.
This book serves as an ideal on-the-spot reference and review for nursing students, new nurses, and other healthcare practitioners. It's an excellent teaching aid, providing seasoned, step-by-step guidance backed by images that illustrate everyday patient care scenarios.
Each chapter features:
- A chapter content summary at the start to outline key points.
- Q&A sections at the end of each chapter—games and quizzes that reinforce learning points through multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions, word games, and matching images to wound care concepts.
- “Nurse Joy and Jake”—expert insights and encouraging advice interspersed throughout the text.
- Take note sections with illustrated interventions that depict real-life patient scenarios.
About the Clinical Editor: Patricia Albano Slachta, PhD, APRN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN, is the President of Nursing Educational Programs and Services in Ridgeland, South Carolina.
ISBN 10: 1496398262
ISBN 13: 9781496398260
