Enhance your wound care skills and confidence with the comprehensive guidance and vivid imagery of the newly updated Wound Care Made Incredibly Visual!®, 3rd Edition. This visually engaging text is designed to lead you through essential concepts, skills, and treatments that ensure positive outcomes in wound management, incorporating the most current products and procedures available.
Whether you're in the classroom or on the clinical floor, this book facilitates learning the Incredibly Visual™ way, with clear explanations and an abundance of images that walk you through the critical steps of effective wound care. Prepare to master the basics, understand the phases, and address the complications of wound care with ease.
The 3rd Edition boasts:
- New and updated photos and graphics that enhance your understanding.
- Revised content reflecting the latest in wound care techniques and interventions.
- Over 100 colorful images that simplify the complexities of wound care—detailed photos, charts, and drawings that clarify and reinforce key concepts in memorable ways.
- Clear, concise text that demystifies the fundamentals and recent advancements in wound care, presented in easy-to-understand terms.
- An ideal resource for visual learners, with numerous images illustrating skills and interventions, covering topics such as:
- Skin anatomy and physiology, including the functions of different skin layers.
- Wound healing processes, types of healing, phases, and potential complications.
- Wound assessment, including the identification of healing failures.
- The impact of aging on wound healing.
- Distinctions between acute and chronic wounds.
- Management of pressure injuries.
- Treatment of vascular ulcers.
- Care for diabetic foot ulcers.
- Handling of 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 a valuable teaching aid, offering seasoned, step-by-step guidance supported by images that depict real-life patient care scenarios.
Each chapter features:
- A summary of chapter content at the beginning to set expectations.
- Interactive Q&A sections at the end of chapters, including games and quizzes like multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions, word games, and matching images to wound care concepts, to reinforce learning points.
- Expert insights and encouragement from "Nurse Joy and Jake" throughout the text.
- Illustrated interventions with "Take note" sections that demonstrate 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
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