+------------------------------------------------+ | CPNE NOTES - LAB SIMULATION MNEUMONICS & STEPS | +------------------------------------------------+ STATION 1: WOUND STATION MNEUMONIC: TIGR Open - Soak Gloves - PAT dry STEPS: *** WASH THY HANDS BEFORE STARTING *** (A) T - Tape (4 strips) - date/time/initial last strip. I - Inspect the dressing & Id the patient. (C) G - Put on non-sterile gloves. R - Remove old dressing & gloves (via one swoop).…
References: Cutting,K. White,R. Edmunds,M. (2007) The safety and efficacy of dressings with silver- addressing clinical concerns. International Wound Journal.4 p.177-184…
Pressure ulcers are “ischemic wounds in the skin and underlying tissues caused by long-standing pressure force over an external bone or cartilaginous surface” (Guillén-Solà 2013). Pressure ulcers are a challenging part of the healthcare system due to prolong patient hospitalization and a reduction in the patient’s quality of life, since many patients that are in the hospital are there for either chronic conditions or intensive surgery, which may require an extensive and long term stay. Moreover, “95% of pressure ulcers are avoidable”, which suggests that pressure ulcers may be caused by “poor quality care assistance”, rather than only caused by a patient’s prolonged hospitalization (Guillén-Solà 2013). Pressure ulcers are not just a challenge…
You can use products such as aloe vera, essential oils, and certain vitamins to get rid of acne scars naturally. Many fruits and vegetables will also help remove scars.…
van Rijswijk, L. (1996) The fundamentals of wound assessment. Ostomy Wound Management; 42: 7, 40-42.…
In this article response paper, I decided to review the article “7 Ways To Calm a Young Brain in Trauma.” This article focuses on how to relax a child’s mind who have experience trauma. The author thesis is to provide guidance to a teacher who has a student that has trauma and make them feel a part of the class. The author then discusses the seven ways that teachers can calm the students to get them through a day of learning.…
Upon a brief search for NPWT and moist dressing, the search field immediately populates with suggestions including “negative pressure wound therapy vs. standard wound therapy,” with 166 results from scholarly journals alone. The database provides many peer-reviewed articles related to the topic, which would strengthen the validity of evidences for wound care dressing therapy recommendations.…
After a severe burn, a pressure ulcer, or a surgical procedure, some of the skin on the patient may be taken away. If the damage is so great that the skin cannot regenerate on its own, the patient may need a skin graft. A skin graft is replacing layers of skin on the body of a patient. Although this process is long, painful, and takes long it heal it does save the lives of many people every year especially in case of burns (Roos).…
When reading through the two poems, there are many obvious aspects that can be observed that make them different. For instance, right away we see that Longfellow's poem has a rhyme scheme within each stanza. Although each stanza does not have the exact same type of rhyme scheme, there is a consistent flow between each of the verses given. As for Whitman's “The Wound Dresser”, there happens to be no type of rhyme scheme within the stanzas. Also, while on the topic of stanzas, Whitman’s vary with the amount verses that go into each one. While Longfellow's consistently contains a flow of about seven lines within each stanza.…
The “Wound Care Market (Traditional Wound Care, Advanced Wound Care, Active Wound Care, Negative Pressure Wound Therapy & Other Therapy Devices) - Current Trends, Opportunities & Global Forecasts (2011 – 2016)” analyzes and studies the major market drivers, restraints, and opportunities in Americas, Europe, Asia, and Rest of the World…
Research findings show the various general drivers, challenges and restraints faced by market players in the field. The report is prepared in such a way so as to cover the focus areas of multiple stake-holders such as market players and manufacturers of wound care…
There isn’t much left of a person after four years of severe abuse. When the physical, psychological, and sexual abuse comes at the hand of the person who has promised to love you for the rest of your life, the scars go much deeper than the surface. Those scars take more than bandages to heal. Covering them up and making them invisible only made the damage more complex. The wasn’t much left of me when I finally sought help.…
A full ROS will also highlight any other problems that need to be addressed in order to maximise wound healing.…
This study was carried in the Ohio State University College of dentistry and published in 1998. This study began by reviewing a previous study on stress and health. This found that people undertaking a chronically stressful activity show characteristic changes in their blood chemistry and take longer to heal minor wounds than do people who are not under conditions of stress. Therefore, it addressed the effects of a commonplaces stressor, examination stress, on wound healing.…
The day of wound healing was predicted based on visual inspection of the wounds using a graph of the ratio of the wound area to the wound’s initial area. Initially, the overall trend of this graph was evaluated. The healing day was plotted on the y-axis when the trend of reduction of the wound size started to become flat, as reported previously,20, 21 which was at 0.33 (see Figure 8a). From that plotted point, line z was made, crossing the lines of reduction for each group. Wound healing days at points P*, PMWD*, PMWDH*, and C* were then made based on the lines from their meeting points to the…