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PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
Pearls for Practice: Managing Diabetic Foot Wounds in Home Health Patients
02/08/2011
  The goal of home care is to return clients to independence within their maximum health status; therefore, the home health nurse focuses on teaching the patient or caregivers how to manage the medical condition, perform dressing changes, and...
  The goal of home care is to return clients to independence within their maximum health status; therefore, the home health nurse focuses on teaching the patient or caregivers how to manage the medical condition, perform dressing changes, and...
  The goal of home care is to...
02/08/2011
Wound Management & Prevention
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Pearls for Practice: Successful Steps to Managing Burn Wounds
01/11/2011
  Burn injuries can be extremely painful and carry a risk of infection. The following considerations often help improve outcomes for your burn patient. Premedicate your patient for pain before providing burn care. Depending on the extent of...
  Burn injuries can be extremely painful and carry a risk of infection. The following considerations often help improve outcomes for your burn patient. Premedicate your patient for pain before providing burn care. Depending on the extent of...
  Burn injuries can be extremely...
01/11/2011
Wound Management & Prevention
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Pearls for Practice: Palliative Care For Patients With External Malignant Tumors
12/01/2010
  Fungating tumors can present physical and emotional challenges to patients, families, and caregivers. Approximately 5% to 10% of patients with cancer will develop a fungating tumor; these tumors and metastatic lesions can develop at any...
  Fungating tumors can present physical and emotional challenges to patients, families, and caregivers. Approximately 5% to 10% of patients with cancer will develop a fungating tumor; these tumors and metastatic lesions can develop at any...
  Fungating tumors can present...
12/01/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
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Pearls for Practice: Managing Hypergranulation Tissue
11/01/2010
  Geriatric home health nurses care for a large number of elderly patients with gastrostomy tubes (G-tubes). The elderly patient who requires a G-tube typically has multiple medical problems and cannot obtain adequate nutrition. Nurses play a...
  Geriatric home health nurses care for a large number of elderly patients with gastrostomy tubes (G-tubes). The elderly patient who requires a G-tube typically has multiple medical problems and cannot obtain adequate nutrition. Nurses play a...
  Geriatric home health nurses...
11/01/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
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Pearls for Practice: Wounds with Exposed Bone
10/01/2010
  Exposed bone may be present with a wide variety of wounds ranging from pressure and neuropathic ulcers to surgical wounds. As in care of wounds without exposed bone, the goals to keep in mind in treating a wound with bone exposure are...
  Exposed bone may be present with a wide variety of wounds ranging from pressure and neuropathic ulcers to surgical wounds. As in care of wounds without exposed bone, the goals to keep in mind in treating a wound with bone exposure are...
  Exposed bone may be present...
10/01/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
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Pearls for Practice: Promoting Appropriate Wound Care Product Use
09/01/2010
  Cytotoxic antiseptics are ordered far too often for use in wound care. A key role of WOC nurses is to educate staff and patients by providing instruction on the use of these types of products.   Cytotoxic products, including hydrogen...
  Cytotoxic antiseptics are ordered far too often for use in wound care. A key role of WOC nurses is to educate staff and patients by providing instruction on the use of these types of products.   Cytotoxic products, including hydrogen...
  Cytotoxic antiseptics are...
09/01/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
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Pearls for Practice: Sebaceous Cyst Management
08/01/2010
  As a Certified Wound Care Nurse in home health, I often am asked to treat an open wound resulting from a sebaceous cyst excision. A sebaceous cyst is a lump or bump under the skin; it results from swollen hair follicles, skin trauma, and/or...
  As a Certified Wound Care Nurse in home health, I often am asked to treat an open wound resulting from a sebaceous cyst excision. A sebaceous cyst is a lump or bump under the skin; it results from swollen hair follicles, skin trauma, and/or...
  As a Certified Wound Care...
08/01/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
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Pearls for Practice: Management of a Patient With Fournier’s Gangrene
06/09/2010
  A 52-year-old man presented to the emergency room with a 4-day history of scrotal pain, edema, and the rapid development of black, foul-smelling, moist lesions on his scrotum and penis. Blood values revealed an increased white blood cell...
  A 52-year-old man presented to the emergency room with a 4-day history of scrotal pain, edema, and the rapid development of black, foul-smelling, moist lesions on his scrotum and penis. Blood values revealed an increased white blood cell...
  A 52-year-old man presented to...
06/09/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
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Pearls for Practice: Making Bedside Wound Management Decisions in Long-Term Care
05/10/2010
    In the long-term care (LTC) setting where the number of Registered Nurses (RN) and specially trained wound care nurses may be limited, Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) and Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA) typically provide resident care....
    In the long-term care (LTC) setting where the number of Registered Nurses (RN) and specially trained wound care nurses may be limited, Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) and Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA) typically provide resident care....
    In the long-term care (LTC)...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
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Pearls for Practice: Non-traumatic Wound Debridement
04/01/2010
     Wound debridement is a vital function in wound healing. Chronic wounds may have decreased cellular activity, increased amounts of protease activity, and may stall in various stages of wound healing. As a result, debridement is necessary...
     Wound debridement is a vital function in wound healing. Chronic wounds may have decreased cellular activity, increased amounts of protease activity, and may stall in various stages of wound healing. As a result, debridement is necessary...
     Wound debridement is a...
04/01/2010
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Use of a New Dressing Protocol in Chronic Lower Extremity Wounds on Homebound Patients: A Retrospective Study
Study to determine if the use of a new dressing protocol applied by advanced practice certified wound care nurses at the patient’s residence could be effective in rapid wound resolution.
Understanding Moisture-associated Skin Damage and Best Practice Recommendations
Special Report on MASD written by Elizabeth Faust, MSN, CRNP, CSWS, CWOCN-AP, MAPWCA; Siobhan McCoulough, CNS; and Patricia Idensohn, CNS.
Gelling Fiber Dressings: How Structure and Function Relate to Healing
Biomedical engineer Amit Gefen, BSc, MSc, PhD, discusses dressings in general and gelling dressings in particular from an engineering and clinical use perspective.
The Wound Hygiene Protocol: An Expert Challenge of Complex Wounds
The supplement provides a brief overview of the Wound Hygiene Protocol, developed by ConvaTec, as well as a series of clinical cases presented by experts in their respective fields. These clinical cases challenge the reader to consider how to best approach the reported wound cases. 

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