Enhance your wound care proficiency with the visually rich and expertly crafted Wound Care Made Incredibly Visual!®, 3rd Edition. This fully updated guide is your go-to resource for mastering the essentials of wound care, ensuring you can deliver top-notch treatment with confidence and skill. Dive into a world of vibrant full-color wound graphics and comprehensive clinical practice guidelines that make learning both effective and enjoyable.

This edition features an array of new and updated photos and graphics, alongside the latest content on cutting-edge wound care techniques and interventions. With over 100 colorful images, the book simplifies the complexities of wound care, making it easy to understand through detailed photos, charts, and drawings. The clear and concise text breaks down fundamental concepts and the latest advancements in wound care, making it accessible to all learners.

Perfect for visual learners, the book offers numerous images that vividly demonstrate essential skills and interventions. Topics covered include:

• Skin anatomy and physiology, detailing skin layers and their functions
• Wound healing, including types of wound healing, healing phases, and potential complications
• Wound assessment techniques, including how to recognize failure to heal
• The effects of aging on wound healing
• Distinctions between acute and chronic wounds
• Pressure injuries
• Vascular ulcers
• Diabetic foot ulcers
• Malignant wounds

This book serves as an ideal on-the-spot reference and review tool for nursing students, new nurses, and other healthcare practitioners. It is also an excellent teaching aid, offering seasoned, step-by-step guidance backed by images that illustrate everyday patient care situations.

Each chapter includes a content summary at the beginning, end-of-chapter games and quizzes to reinforce learning points, such as multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions, word games, and matching images to wound care concepts. You'll also find expert insights and encouraging advice from "Nurse Joy and Jake," along with illustrated interventions that showcase real-life patient scenarios.

The clinical editor, Patricia Albano Slachta, PhD, APRN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN, brings her extensive expertise as President of the Nursing Educational Programs and Services in Ridgeland, South Carolina.

ISBN 10: 1496398262

ISBN 13: 9781496398260