Wound Care MI Visual

Enhance your wound care expertise with the comprehensive and visually engaging "Wound Care Made Incredibly Visual!®, 3rd Edition." This fully updated guide is packed with over 100 full-color wound graphics, documentation tips, and clinical practice guidelines to help you deliver effective wound care with confidence and skill.

Let this colorfully illustrated text be your guide through the fundamental concepts, skills, and treatments essential for achieving positive wound care outcomes. Benefit from the latest products and procedures as you prepare to excel in both the classroom and clinical settings. The enjoyable Incredibly Visual ™ approach, with its clear explanations and abundant images, will lead you through the critical steps of effective wound care.

Master the basic concepts, skills, phases, and complications of wound care with:

• 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—detailed photos, charts, and drawings that elucidate and reinforce key concepts in memorable ways
• Clear, concise text that demystifies the fundamentals and latest advancements in wound care
• Ideal for visual learners—numerous images demonstrating skills and interventions, covering:
• Skin anatomy and physiology—understanding skin layers and their functions
• Wound healing—exploring types of wound healing, healing phases, and potential complications
• Wound assessment—learning to recognize signs of failure to heal
• Effects of aging on wound healing
• Distinguishing between acute and chronic wounds
• Understanding pressure injuries
• Managing vascular ulcers
• Treating diabetic foot ulcers
• Caring for malignant wounds

This book serves as an excellent on-the-spot reference and review for nursing students, new nurses, and other healthcare practitioners. It's also a valuable teaching aid, offering seasoned, step-by-step guidance supported by images that illustrate everyday patient care situations.

Each chapter features:

• A chapter content summary at the start 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 offered throughout
• Take note—illustrated interventions demonstrating real-life patient scenarios

About the Clinical Editor:

Patricia Albano Slachta, PhD, APRN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN, is President of the Nursing Educational Programs and Services in Ridgeland, South Carolina.

ISBN 10: 1496398262

ISBN 13: 9781496398260