Enhance your wound care proficiency with the comprehensive and visually engaging Wound Care Made Incredibly Visual!®, 3rd Edition. This fully updated guide is essential for delivering effective wound care with confidence, featuring over 100 full-color wound graphics and detailed clinical practice guidelines.
Navigate through the essential concepts, skills, and treatments critical for achieving positive wound care outcomes. This edition includes the latest products and procedures, ensuring you are well-equipped for success both in the classroom and on the clinical unit. The Incredibly Visual ™ approach makes learning enjoyable and effective, with clear explanations and an abundance of images that guide you through every step of the wound care process.
Master the basics of wound care, including:
- NEW and updated photos and graphics
- NEW and updated content on the latest wound care techniques and interventions
- Hundreds of colorful images that simplify the complexities of wound care—featuring detailed photos, charts, and drawings to reinforce key concepts in memorable ways
- Clear, concise text that elucidates the fundamentals and recent advancements in wound care
- Ideal for visual learners with numerous images that demonstrate skills and interventions, covering:
- Skin anatomy and physiology—exploring skin layers and their functions
- Wound healing—types of wound healing, healing phases, and complications
- Wound assessment—including recognizing failure to heal
- Effects of aging on wound healing
- Acute versus chronic wounds
- Pressure injuries
- Vascular ulcers
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Malignant wounds
This book serves as an excellent on-the-spot reference and review for nursing students, new nurses, and other healthcare practitioners. It is also an outstanding teaching aid, offering seasoned, step-by-step guidance illustrated with images that reflect everyday patient care situations.
Key chapter features include:
- Chapter content summary at the beginning of each chapter
- Q&A—End-of-chapter games and quizzes to reinforce learning points, including 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 throughout the text
- Take note—Illustrated interventions that showcase real-life patient scenarios
The clinical editor, Patricia Albano Slachta, PhD, APRN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN, brings her expertise as President of the Nursing Educational Programs and Services in Ridgeland, South Carolina.
ISBN 10: 1496398262
ISBN 13: 9781496398260
