Wound assessment and documentation Practice Nursing Vol 8, No 13Trudie Young
Find a step-by-step guide to wound documentation here, including a downloadable cheat sheet and a wound documentation sample ➜
The term “packed” is a common example of a wound assessment documentation term often used in healthcare facilities and in the courthouse. If a wound gets worse or fails to heal, lawyers may argue that the clinician packed the wound too tightly, causing additional damage. Instead of using ...
In the context of interdisciplinary wound care, some outpatient nursing services, inpatient nursing homes, wound experts, general practitioners, hospitals and many more have already abandoned the laborious paper wound documentation and now use the digital documentation in imitoWound. ...
Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing and the first nursing epidemiologist, is attributed as saying “The ultimate goal is to manage quality. But you cannot manage it until you have a way to measure it, and you cannot measure it until you can monitor it” (Eagle and Davies 19...
You need skilled care such as nursing or therapy; and You’re under the care of a physician who has created a home health plan of care for you; and It’s difficult for you to leave home without assistance (for example, from another person or a device like a walker or wheelchair) or...
nursing practices and improve patient care [18]. A recent study in a health service in New South Wales, Australia, reported improvements in wound documentation with the use of an AI-enabled mobile app [19]. AI-powered mobile imaging enables practitioners to detect and classify the stages of ...
Free Essay: For clinical week 9, I was assigned to the UMC Wound Care Clinic to view a different field of nursing. As soon as I arrived at the clinic the...
Using long-wear advanced foam dressings as part of a shared wound care approach has the potential to release more than 10%, or approximately 400 million hours of nursing time spent on dressing changes in the community* (Rossington et al, 2013; Simon and...
3 The specific effects of treatment and cancer of particular concern for oncology patients are addressed by other authors in this issue of Seminars in Oncology Nursing. Understanding skin care, how wounds develop, and how they heal, are premised on additional understanding of the basic anatomy ...