Wound Care MI Visual

Enhance your wound care proficiency with the comprehensive and visually engaging Wound Care Made Incredibly Visual!®, 3rd Edition. This fully updated guide is designed to equip you with the skills and confidence needed for effective wound management, featuring over 100 full-color wound graphics and the latest clinical practice guidelines.

Dive into the world of wound care with this colorfully illustrated text that walks you through essential concepts, skills, and treatments. Stay up-to-date with the newest products and procedures, ensuring positive outcomes in your practice. Whether you're in the classroom or on the unit, the Incredibly Visual™ approach makes learning enjoyable and effective, with clear explanations and an abundance of images to guide you through the critical steps of wound care.

Master the fundamentals, phases, and potential complications of wound care with:

• New and updated photos and graphics that reflect the latest in wound care.
• Revised content covering the most current wound care techniques and interventions.
• Hundreds of vibrant images that simplify the complexities of wound care, including detailed photos, charts, and drawings that reinforce key concepts in memorable ways.
• Clear, concise text that breaks down the basics and latest advancements in wound care into easily understandable terms.
• Visual learning aids with numerous images that illustrate skills and interventions, such as:
• Skin anatomy and physiology, detailing skin layers and their functions.
• Wound healing processes, including types of healing, phases, and complications.
• Wound assessment techniques, including recognizing signs of healing failure.
• 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 ideal on-the-spot reference and review tool for nursing students, new nurses, and other healthcare practitioners. It's also an excellent teaching aid, offering seasoned, step-by-step guidance supported by images that depict real-life patient care scenarios.

Each chapter includes:

• A content summary at the beginning to set the stage for learning.
• Engaging end-of-chapter games and quizzes, such as multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions, word games, and matching images to wound care concepts, to reinforce learning points.
• Expert insights and encouraging advice from "Nurse Joy and Jake" throughout the text.
• Illustrated interventions that showcase real-life patient scenarios in the "Take note" feature.

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