Essay On Wound Drainage

Wound management is one of the cornerstones for nursing care however, effective wound care extends far beyond the application of the wound itself. Nurses may be required to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate wound care; therefore, order to fill these roles it’s critical to have an understanding of the several different areas of wound care such as, integumentary system, classification of wounds, wound procedures, and documentation. Knowledge in each of these areas will allow nurses to make well informed decisions about wound care, and as a result play an active part in wound healing.

My practical competencies have been obtained through working with a general and orthopaedic surgeon. Whilst working with my clinical supervisor, (a consultant orthopaedic surgeon) we decided it would be beneficial to review orthopaedic wound infections. I chose to concentrate on wound infections during a Total Hip Replacement (THR). Wound infections is a massive subject so I have selected specific areas to look at, which are:

Serosanguineous drainage is expected after abdominal surgery because of incision and time needed for clotting process. It is not normal if the bandage is soaked with blood, if green or yellow drainage is coming from it, or patient have black or tarry stools, or there is blood in his stool.

The following assignment will take the form of a case study. The subject is a 79-year-old sikh gentleman, who will be known as patient X. Patient X only speaks English as his second language. Patient X has developed a wound on his right hip after being admitted a few days previously, after suffering from a stroke. Patient X has a history of a mild stroke and has slow mobility and uses the aid of a frame to mobilise. Patient X is obese, a heavy smoker and now

The work of Burke, et al (2011) reports that a study with the objective of comparing the "efficacy of intradermal bacteriostatic normal saline with that of intradermal buffered lidocaine in providing local anesthesia to adult patients prior to IV catheterization." (p.1) The study concluded that intradermal buffered lidocaine was superior to intradermal bacteriostatic normal saline in providing local anesthesia prior to IV catheterization in this group of predominately white adults and should be the solution of choice for venipuncture pretreatment." (Burke, et al, 2011, p.1) Burke et al reports that surgery is something that most people fear with the fear of the unknown is combined with "apprehension about such anticipated procedures as insertion of an IV line." (2011, p.1) Burke additionally reports that patients admitted for same-day surgery "require IV access. Any venipuncture, including peripheral IV catheterization with a medium-to-large-gauge catheter, can cause some degree of pain. Using local anesthesia prior to IV catheterization has

I observed the documentation process from week -2 in my clinical setting and through reading the related documents I gained theoretical knowledge of documentation . I week -4 I did the the return demonstration of documentation with my instructor successfully and started the documentation process in clinical and developed my communication skill . I think my learning plan helped me to achieve this goal . When I started this semester I wanted to learn about the wound care . To achieve this goal I observed the techniques of wound care in week -10 demonstrated by my instructor and reviewed the related resources of wound care . In week -11 I was successful in return demonstration of wound care and evaluated by my instructor . The plan I made

     This essay is not intended to criticize any emergency medical or hospital staff. I am writing this essay out of concern for patients who come into the emergency room that may have a jeopardized spinal cord resulting from an injury or suspected injury to their cervical spine. I am a certified emergency medical technician, farm-medic instructor and currently a medical diagnostic student doing clinicial's. In the United States each year there are approximately 10,000 reported cervical spine injuries that come into emergency rooms. Motor vehicle accidents account for approximately 45%, falls approximately 30%, the remaining 25% from sports and miscellaneous. Although only a small amount of

Researchers will decide to select wound infections that occur after open heart surgery as a topic for their study, because it is significant for staff nurses to know the effect of wound infections that occurs with the adult patients. Researchers will obtain permission from the cardiac surgery center so that they could collect information from adult patients. They will also contact and meet with staff nurses in cardiac surgery center. Nurse educators will provide the form to all staff nurses working in the operating room. The form includes the title of the study, the purpose of the study, place of the work, duration of the study, potential benefits, potential risks, participant signature, and date. The reader can follow that consent

. The organization’s culture patients are found using indwelling catheterization for long periods of time, and no protocol for removal of the catheter post-operative patient’s, and also unnecessary Foley insertion on elderly inpatients for incontinence. Simultaneously, it is important to note that by avoiding indwelling cauterization and prolonged stay of catheter in patients may increase the infection and (CAUTIs (Bernard, Hunter, & Moore, (2012). The author made a survey and then analyzed it as a whole. However, the survey documented low and high score related to the case.

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This article does not provide the search strategy including a number of databases and other resources which identify key published and unpublished research. In this article, both the primary sources and the theoretical literatures are collected and appraised in order to generate the research question and to conduct knowledge-based research. In the section of the literature review, nineteen professional articles are appraised in order to provide the significance and background of the study. Saint develops the research question based on these analyses. “Catheter-associated urinary tract infections in surgical patients: A controlled study on the excess morbidity and costs” is one of the primary sources written by Givens and Wenzel who conduct and analyze this study. In addition, “Clinical and economic consequences of nosocomial catheter-related bacteriuria” is a review of a literature article which is the secondary source. Although many studies state that patient safety is a top priority and CAUTI can be controlled by the caution of health care providers, the infection rate is relatively high among other nosocomial infections. One of the reasons Saint and colleagues uncovered is unawareness and negligence by health care

Peripheral IV catheterization is a painful and potentially anxiety-provoking procedure for the patients. The interventions to reduce the pain caused by venipuncture were explored in the past decades (Oman, 2014). The majority of the studies reviewed in this summary included one level 1 evidence of meta-analyses (Oman, 2014), three level 2 evidences of randomized controlled trials (Beck, 2011; Deguzman, 2012; Kahre, 2011) and one level 3 evidence of controlled trials without randomization (Levitt , 2013). Many studies have demonstrated that 1% lidocaine intradermal injection before IV insertion can reduce the pain significantly (Oman, 2014). Kahre and his colleagues’ study indicated bacteriostatic normal saline (BNS) group had lower pain score

Drainage is a normal result of the healing process and occurs during the inflammatory and proliferative phases of healing.

Background. Surgical site wound closure can play a key part in the recovery of patients post-operatively. The use of closure material is usually according to the preference of the surgeon and is a frequently debated issue.

According to Walker and Avant (1995), concept analysis allows nursing to examine the attributes or