Unlike in the UK, prescribing is restricted to doctors in some countries such as Germany – although it was suggested that many nurses have greater knowledge about caring for chronic wounds than doctors. There are also reimbursement considerations, especially across many countries in Europe, and in...
(average interclass correlation coefficient of 0.988) for interrater reliability in a study17 of 7 nurses involved in wound care. The device’s measurements also were validated for wound area and wound volume in 12 wounds on a porcin...
are provided daily, with emollients applied to healed areas multiple times per day by nurses or occupational therapists. Emphasis is placed on patient teaching for self-management and caregiver training. Once cleared, self-management of wound care in the shower is an excellent preparation for home...
Nurses will provide an observational rating using the Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability (FLACC) scale, which is accepted as a valid and reliable tool for assessing trauma-related pain behaviours in preverbal children [99, 100]. Children aged 4 to 7 years will be asked to self-report...
Sample: Patients undergoing general surgery (n = 15) Participants valued discharge education from nurses on self-care but reported no follow-up post-discharge. Ardizzone et al., 2013, United States Aim: Methods: Non-randomised experimental, education session, survey, and observation. Setting:...
Methods and apparatus for storing and reviewing wound data are shown using a digital datasheet, or wound electronic medical record (WEMR). The WEMR is preferably presented via a single page containing
Summary Silhouette is a long-awaited tool to significantly boost the precision of wound measurement and the reliability of healing trends, and provide a solution to the challenges of wound image and documentation management. The Silhouette system gives providers the confidence of knowing that they ...
The answers to these questions may be that nurses should use pressure mapping, a tool used by occupational and physical therapists to determine seat-interface pressures and by other healthcare professionals to perform foot assessments. What is pressure mapping?
Photography should ideally be used only for recording and monitoring purposes, rather than as a diagnostic tool. However, telemedicine has an important role to play in wound care and, in some care settings, photography may be vital (e.g. in rural settings wher...
An apparatus for cleansing and promoting tissue growth in wounds, in which irrigant fluid optionally containing cell nutrients and/or other physiologically active material from a re