Wound Care Nursing; A Patient-Centered Approach

by Bale & Jones

• ISBN13: 9780723433446
• ISBN10: 0723433445
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-04
• Publisher: Mosby Ltd.

Summary

This book assumes little or no specialist knowledge and introduces the reader to a nursing framework for wound care that focuses on patients and their nursing care rather than just the wound. It adopts a unique life-cycle approach and takes the reader on a wound care journey as patients travel from birth to old age. Illustrated in full colour throughout, different patients are presented as case stories, with individualized care plans. The authors have based this book on current research and have incorporated their extensive knowledge and practical experiences to provide an essential reference text for all those interested in wounds. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Assessment and Planning	p. 1
Assessing the normal and abnormal	p. 3
Introduction	p. 4
Assessment of the individual	p. 5
Factors affecting wound healing	p. 11
Local wound assessment	p. 17
Assessment of the environment	p. 27
Summary	p. 28
Further reading	p. 28
References	p. 28
Assessing and planning individualized care	p. 33
Introduction	p. 33
Using a nursing model to assess individuals	p. 33
Planning individualized care	p. 43
Summary	p. 46
Further reading	p. 47
References	p. 47
Intervention	p. 49
Principles of wound interventions	p. 51
Introduction	p. 51
Historical perspective	p. 52
The development of moist wound healing	p. 55
Management of sutured wounds	p. 56
Management of open or granulating wounds	p. 56
Managing wound infection	p. 63
Wound cleansing	p. 67
Summary	p. 70
Further reading	p. 70
References	p. 70
Wound care in the baby and young child	p. 73
Introduction	p. 73
Nursing infants	p. 74
Extravasation injury	p. 77
Histiocytosis X	p. 80
Infectious diseases	p. 84
Thermal injuries	p. 87
Animal bite wounds	p. 92
Summary	p. 94
Further reading	p. 94
References	p. 94
Wound care in teenagers	p. 97
Introduction	p. 97
Chemical burns	p. 99
Pressure sores	p. 102
Road traffic accidents	p. 107
Summary	p. 111
Further reading	p. 111
References	p. 111
Wound care in the young adult	p. 113
Introduction	p. 113
Preparing for planned surgery	p. 114
Coping with emergency surgery	p. 114
Caesarean section	p. 120
Traumatic injury	p. 124
Malignant tumours	p. 126
Factitious wounds	p. 128
Summary	p. 133
Further reading	p. 133
References	p. 133
Wound care in the middle-aged individual	p. 135
Introduction	p. 135
Diabetic foot ulceration	p. 136
Breast cancer	p. 143
Colorectal cancer	p. 147
Summary	p. 149
Further reading	p. 151
References	p. 151
Wound care in the elderly individual with a pressure ulcer	p. 153
Introduction	p. 153
Pressure ulcers	p. 154
Assessment of the elderly patient with a pressure ulcer	p. 166
Wound management	p. 169
Summary	p. 174
Further reading	p. 174
References	p. 174
Wound care in the elderly individual with leg ulceration and malignancy	p. 177
Introduction	p. 177
Leg ulceration	p. 177
Venous ulcers	p. 178
Arterial ulcers	p. 189
Fungating malignant wounds	p. 194
Summary	p. 197
Further reading	p. 197
References	p. 197
Evaluation	p. 201
Ways of evaluating care	p. 203
Introduction	p. 203
Evaluation of the wound	p. 204
Evaluating delivery of care	p. 205
Evaluating the patient's quality of life	p. 209
Evaluating the contribution of the specialist nurse	p. 211
Summary	p. 213
Further reading	p. 213
References	p. 214
Section of NICE (2003) Pressure ulcer prevention clinical guideline 7	p. 217
Glossary	p. 223
Useful website addresses	p. 227
Subject Index	p. 229
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