Enhance your wound care skills with the comprehensive and visually engaging Wound Care Made Incredibly Visual!®, 3rd Edition. This fully updated guide offers over 100 full-color wound graphics, along with detailed clinical practice guidelines, to ensure you provide effective wound care with confidence and expertise.

Navigate through the essential concepts, skills, and treatments crucial for achieving positive wound care outcomes with the help of this richly illustrated text. It encompasses the latest products and procedures, making it an indispensable tool for both classroom learning and practical application on the unit. The Incredibly Visual ™ approach, characterized by clear explanations and an abundance of images, simplifies the vital steps of effective wound care.

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

• New and updated photos and graphics to reflect the latest in wound care visualization.
• New and updated content covering the most recent wound care techniques and interventions.
• Hundreds of colorful images that demystify the complexities of wound care, including detailed photos, charts, and drawings that enhance understanding and retention of key concepts.
• Clear, concise text that elucidates both the fundamentals and the latest advancements in wound care, making it accessible and understandable.
• A visual learner's delight, with numerous images demonstrating skills and interventions such as:
  • Skin anatomy and physiology, including the layers and functions of the skin.
  • Wound healing processes, types of healing, healing phases, and potential complications.
  • Wound assessment techniques, including recognizing signs of healing failure.
  • The effects 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 for nursing students, new nurses, and other healthcare practitioners. It is also an excellent teaching aid, providing seasoned, step-by-step guidance illustrated with images that reflect everyday patient care scenarios.

Each chapter is enriched with:

• A content summary at the beginning to outline the chapter's focus.
• End-of-chapter games and quizzes that reinforce learning, including multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions, word games, and matching images to wound care concepts.
• Expert insights and encouragement from "Nurse Joy and Jake" throughout the text.
• Illustrated interventions showcasing real-life patient scenarios under the "Take note" feature.

The clinical editor, Patricia Albano Slachta, PhD, APRN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN, is the President of Nursing Educational Programs and Services in Ridgeland, South Carolina, bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience to this edition.

ISBN 10: 1496398262

ISBN 13: 9781496398260