Wound Care Management : The Elderly Modern Medicine And The Benefits Of Natural Medicines

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.

Wound care and management is one of the most time consuming tasks in nursing profession.

In this paper we will present critical analysis on the different views on nursing the wound dressing focusing primarily on the possible infections ranging from technique to use of silver to the overall impact made by these choices.

On assessment, the wound was slightly exudates, odour, sloughs and dry skin patches on the surroundings. Sprakes (2010) state that, holistic assessment of patient and the wound are essential in order to facilitate the wound healing process. Ousey and McIntosh (2010) points out that, chronic wounds are exacerbated by a sequence of misdiagnosis, neglect, incompetence or inappropriate treatment strategies. I observed that, M’s wound was with exudates and sloughs; this

Pressure ulcers that occur in the long term care setting are increasing in the number of incidences each year in the United States. Consequences and complications of pressure ulcer development include pain, sepsis, cellulitis, bone, and joint infections. Pressure ulcers are also associated with an increased morbidity and mortality rate, negative emotional and physical effects on patients and caregivers, and are the second leading cause of litigation in long term care facilities. The cost of treatment for pressure ulcers in the United States is estimated at 11 billion dollars annually. This has led to many programs that focus on education and intervention to prevent the development of pressure ulcers, even being addressed in public initiatives such as Healthy People 2010. Appropriate information and education for healthcare providers, patients, and families has proven to be a key factor in the prevention of pressure ulcer development. Wound management is an area of healthcare that must include a comprehensive plan for the best outcome. A care plan that includes a well-educated care team composed of various disciplines working together for holistic care of each patient has seen the best results for patients who suffer from pressure ulcers.

It is crucial for nursing personnel to have knowledge of the intrinsic factors as well as simple measures than can be taken to prevent wounds becoming infected. Strategies to decrease infection risks should be included as part of a wound management regimen.

When nursing comes to mind, it is common to think of only acute care nurses working the floor of the local hospital. However, nurses work in a variety of settings, one of which I was able to witness at St. Mary’s wound clinic. Of the five patients that I was able to interact with here, one of the most interesting was the case of a 33-year-old male patient who presented to the clinic with a venous leg ulcer. The ulcer, located on the lateral portion of the lower leg just below the patient’s calf, was draining a significant amount of serosanguinous fluid. Additionally, cellulitis infected the entire calf area, while the skin immediately surrounding the wound

This report will discuss the risk of impaired wound healing, amongst patients in the community. Patients may be at risk due to increased age, malnutrition and underlying medical conditions (Timmons, 2003, White, 2008). However, this report concerns with patients’ knowledge deficit about the importance of nutrition, which may be the risk factor (Casey, 1998, Dealey, 2005, Timmons, 2003). In this respect, a management package in the form of a leaflet aimed at these patients has been prepared, (see appendix), which may improve patients’ knowledge. The report will evaluate how the risk could be minimised by using this leaflet.

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

Skin tears are traumatic wounds, which usually occur on the extremities of the elderly. Not to mention the amount of deaths that occur when skin breakdown doesn’t get treated. The article, “Preventing in –facility Pressure Ulcers, “ states that, “60,000 U.S. patients will die from complications related to hospital-acquired Pus”. (Preventing, 2013). When you think about all the different diseases and illness that can kill someone, pressure ulcer don’t normally come to mind. If we have less skin breakdown with the elderly, we can keep our facilities safer, less life-threatening problems, and have a more successful career as a nurse. There are many ways that you can treat pressure ulcers or skin breakdown in general, but people need to realize what patients are at more risk to develop skin integrity, the ways to prevent skin breakdown from the beginning, and how to treat skin tears when they appear before they can say that they know what skin integrity is. This concept paper will provide the key points on what to know about skin integrity. Who is more at risk, how to prevent them from occurring, and what to do if it does happen.

Performs patient teaching on surgical topics including DVT prevention and importance of skin preparation. While assessing a patient, Ms Davidson noticed that a patient has an open wound. She offered to clean and bandage patient wound. She

Pressure ulcer prevention is a major task of direct care personnel in hospitals around the world. Even with evidenced-based polices currently in place at many facilities, patients still continue to develop pressure ulcers. Patients with pressure ulcers require the care of a multi-disciplinary team, ranging from nursing assistants to nutritionists to wound care physicians. Pressure ulcers are expensive to treat, can lead to infections and other illnesses, and sometimes cost patients their lives. A literature search was conducted of five articles related to pressure ulcer prevention in order to find a solution to implement on a medical-surgical unit at a local hospital. The proposed change was selected using Lewin 's Change Theory. The proposed solution was to train nursing assistants in assisting registered nurses (RNs) with monitoring patients ' skin and providing care to prevent the development of pressure ulcers. The pros and cons of this solution, required resources, costs of implementation, education required, and evaluation of the change were all discussed.

As per the researchers findings district nurses treated many kinds of wounds, but most often without proper medical diagnosis. There was no officially defined area of responsibility of the different professional groups. There was no proper wound treatment guidelines found most of the time.

A wound can be described as damage to an area of the body, it can be internal or external, external wounds are damages that affect the skin and the anatomy of the skin. It is named by the type of forces that caused them. This essay briefly describes the current state of wound care in Canada, and also the projection wound care in Canada in the next 10 years. In order to understand where we are, we need to reflect on the genesis of wound care practice in

Working in a healthcare domain means providing the most effective and beneficial care for the incompetent patients. Particularly, to those who needs intimate nursing assistance such as dressing, bathing, eating, toileting and skin care activities ( Wurster 2007).This is especially true if the person is mentally, emotionally, and physically dependent like the clients in nursing homes. Nurses, health care assistants or support workers and other health care providers ought to educate themselves for improving quality of care and exceeding specific benchmarks in regards to pressure sores ( Wurster 2007). All the same the basic