Wound Care Essentials / Edition 5

by Sharon Baranoski MSN, RN, CWOCN, APN, FAAN, Elizabeth A. Ayello PhD, RN, APRN, BC, CWOCN,

Overview

Awards

• Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2021!
• Awarded First Place in the 2020 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Medical-Surgical Nursing Category
• Awarded Second Place in the 2020 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Advance Practice Nursing Category.

Looking for an up-to-date, how-to, evidence-based wound care reference? The newly revised Wound Care Essentials, 5th Edition is the comprehensive seminal resource, offering the latest evidence, guidelines and information to assist the interprofessional skin and wound care team translate knowledge into practice. 

A crucial guide for all skin and wound care professionals, this essential resource provides authoritative science and practical instruction on wound care best practices. 
 
This must-have guide offers the latest, skin and wound care research-backed insights on prevention and management strategies… 

• Three New Chapters—Skin, Challenging Skin Conditions and Lymphedema 
• More chapter contributions from global wound care opinion leaders
• More (now 50) helpful color photos in the wound gallery 
• Comprehensive end-of-book certification practice exam, including new review questions
• Chapter features that include: 
  • All chapters have been updated with the latest available research and educational enablers
  • Visual aids, mnemonics, tables boxes, diagrams. and charts to highlight key concepts
  • Practice Point Boxes – quick summaries of knowledge for best practices that assist in retaining knowledge
  • Show What You Know – review questions at the end of each chapter and answers with explanations at the end of the book
  • Patient Scenario – case studies that illustrate clinical data and discuss application of information
• Skin and Wound Care Concepts—every chapter has been updated with the most current international guidelines especially for pressure injuries and skin tears
• Essential content for training staff at wound centers and in every healthcare practice setting – ideal for updating skin and wound care policies and procedures

 
About the Authors  
Sharon Baranoski, MSN, RN, CCNS-APN, CWCN, MAPWCA, FAAN, is a Board-certified, Advanced Practice Nurse specializing in skin & wound care. Her experience crosses all health care setting.  She is a well-known consultant, lecturer, author and educator. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.  She is a former President of the International Skin Tear Advisory Board and the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel and remains an active member of both organizations.  Sharon has received numerous accolades and awards for her 35 plus years of work in the field of wound care.  
 
Elizabeth A. Ayello, PhD, MS, BSN, RN, CWON, ETN, MAPWCA, FAAN, is a Board-certified wound and ostomy nurse who believes in the interprofessional team approach to skin and wound care practice and education. A fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, she is an internationally known prolific author, editor, researcher, consultant  (including to CMS) and innovative, interactive educator who is the current Co- Editor in Chief of Advances in Skin and Wound Care, President of the World Council of Enterostomal.


 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781975128883
Publisher:	LWW
Publication date:	07/01/2020
Edition description:	Fifth
Pages:	632
Sales rank:	322,762
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Sharon Baranoski, MSN, RN, CWCN, APN-CCRN, DAPWCA, FAAN

President, Wound Care Dynamics, Inc., Nurse Consultant Services, Shorewood, Illinois

Symposium Director, Clinical Symposium on Advances in Skin & Wound Care

Editorial Advisory Board,  Advances in Skin & Wound Care

Nursing Advisory Board, Rasmussen College, Romeoville/Joliet, Illinois

Council of Regents & Nursing Advisory Board, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois

Elizabeth A. Ayello, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CWON, MAPWCA, FAAN

Faculty, Excelsior College School of Nursing, Albany, New York

Clinical Associate Editor, Advances In Skin & Wound Care

Executive Editor, Journal of The World Council of Enterostomal Therapists (WCET)

Senior Adviser, The John A. Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing

President, Ayello, Harris & Associates, Inc., New York, New York

Table of Contents

Part I—Wound Care Concepts

1          Quality of Life and Ethical Issues

            --Mona Mylene Baharestani

2          Regulation and Wound Care

            --Dan R. Berlowitz, Denise Israel-Richardson, and Courtney H. Lyder

3          Legal Aspects of Wound Care

   --Steven P. Knowlton and Gregory Brown

4          Skin: An Essential Organ

--Sharon Baranoski, Elizabeth A. Ayello, Marjana Tomic-Canic, and Jeffrey M. Levine

5          Acute and Chronic Wound Healing

--Samantha Holloway, Keith Harding, Joyce K. Stechmiller, and Gregory Schultz

6          Wound Assessment

--Sharon Baranoski, Elizabeth A. Ayello, and Diane K. Langemo

7          Wound Bioburden and Infection

--Sue E. Gardner and Rita A. Frantz

8          Wound Debridement

--Elizabeth A. Ayello, Sharon Baranoski, R. Gary Sibbald, and Janet E. Cuddigan

9          Wound Treatment Options

--Sharon Baranoski, Elizabeth A. Ayello, Andrea McIntosh, Linda Montoya, and Pamela Scarborough

10        Nutrition and Wound Care

--Mary Ellen Posthauer and David R. Thomas

11        Pressure Redistribution: Seating, Positioning, and Support Surfaces

--David M. Brienza, Mary Jo Geyer, Stephen Sprigle, and Karen Zulkowski

12        Pain Management and Wounds

--Linda E. Dallam, Christine Barkauskas, Elizabeth A. Ayello, Sharon Baranoski, and R. Gary Sibbald

Part II—Wound Classifications and Management Strategies

13        Pressure Ulcers

--Elizabeth A. Ayello, Sharon Baranoski, Courtney H. Lyder, Janet E. Cuddigan, and Wendy S. Harris

14        Venous Disease and Lymphedema Management

Venous Disease

--Mary Y. Sieggreen and Ronald A. Kline

Lymphedema

--Carolyn E. Fife, Mary Y. Sieggreen, and Ronald A. Kline

15        Arterial Ulcers

--Mary Y. Sieggreen, Ronald A. Kline, R. Gary Sibbald, and Gregory Ralph Weir

16        Diabetic Foot Ulcers

--Lawrence A. Lavery, James B. McGuire, Sharon Baranoski, Elizabeth A. Ayello, and Steven R. Kravitz

17        Sickle Cell Ulcers

--Terry Treadwell

18        Surgical Reconstruction of Wounds

--Joyce M. Black and Steven B. Black

19        Tube, Drain, and Fistula Management

--Paula Erwin-Toth and Linda J. Stricker

20        Atypical Wounds

--David Weinstein, Tami de Araujo, and Robert S. Kirsner

21        Wounds in Special Populations

Intensive Care Population

--Janet E. Cuddigan

Spinal Cord Injury Population

--Susan L. Garber

HIV/AIDS Population

--Carl A. Kirton

Bariatric Population

--Janet E. Cuddigan and Sharon Baranoski

22        Pressure Ulcers in Neonatal and Pediatric Populations

--Mona Mylene Baharestani

23        Palliative Wound Care

--Diane K. Langemo

24        Wound Care Perspectives: Present and Future

­--Sharon Baranoski and Elizabeth A. Ayello

Index