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Teaching ostomy patients to regain their independence
Make sure your ostomy patients leave the hospital with the knowledge and skills they need.
Get positive results with negative-pressure wound therapy
The author present tips to help you avoid pitfalls and ensure safe use of negative-pressure wound therapy, which applies subatmospheric pressure to accelerate the healing of complex wounds.
Caring for chronic wounds: A knowledge update
Assess wounds more precisely, identify wound-related problems earlier, and intervene more effectively.
Consider a career as a wound, ostomy, and continence nurse
In 2008, hospitals, extended-care facilities, and home-health agencies will face these regulatory and patient-care issues:
• high expenses for supplies
• unsatisfied patients
• facility-acquired pressure ulcers
•...
Central venous catheter dressings put to the test
A nursing team's research findings lead to hospital-wide savings.
Teaching ostomy patients to regain their independence
Make sure your ostomy patients leave the hospital with the knowledge and skills they need.
Teaching Ostomy Care
WEB EXCLUSIVE - More information on teaching patients ostomy care. Please download PDF for best viewing.
Investigating nurses’ dressing change techniques
Original nursing research explores nurses' rationales for using sterile technique instead of clean technique in particular circumstances - and reveals wide practice discrepencies.
Sepsis: Stopping an insidious killer
How to recognize sepsis in time and use the therapies recommended by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign.