The Care of Wounds: A Guide for Nurses [Paperback]

Carol Dealey (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0632038640 | ISBN-13: 978-0632038640 | Publication Date: July 1994

This is a comprehensive textbook covering wound management. It is aimed specifically at nurses, but may also be of interest to other members of the health-care team. The book aims to clarify the areas of confusion surrounding wound care and provides guidelines for consistent wound management. In addition to covering topics such as the physiology of healing and the range of wound management products, the book adopts an holistic approach to the subject and an entire section is devoted to the care of a patient with a wound. Another section covers the general principles of wound management of patients with specific types of wounds and a series of case studies demonstrate the application of theory to practice. The book provides up-to-date, research-based knowledge which is clinically orientated.

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Book Description

Care of Wounds addresses all aspects of holistic wound care management. The third edition of this successful text continues to reflect current research and evidence based practice, while incorporating the considerable developments which have occurred in wound care practice since the publication of the second edition. The third edition includes new chapters on evidence-based wound care and the organisation of wound management, together with new material on nurse prescribing and the management of wounds in the community; the development of nurse-led ulcer clinics and specialist wound management centres; details of new technologies and the use of pressure redistributing equipment. Although principally written for nurses, it is of value to all healthcare professionals working in the field of wound healing. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Care of Wounds addresses all aspects of holistic wound care management. The third edition of this successful text continues to reflect current research and evidence based practice, while incorporating the considerable developments which have occurred in wound care practice since the publication of the second edition.

The third edition includes new chapters on evidence-based wound care and the organisation of wound management, together with new material on nurse prescribing and the management of wounds in the community; the development of nurse-led ulcer clinics and specialist wound management centres; details of new technologies and the use of pressure redistributing equipment. Although principally written for nurses, it is of value to all healthcare professionals working in the field of wound healing. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Blackwell Science Inc (July 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0632038640
• ISBN-13: 978-0632038640
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,290,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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