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A number of wound management books have been written by South Australian authors. Templeton Sue (ed) 2005 Wound Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice Ausmed Publications Victoria Available from Ausmed Publications www.ausmed.com.au This multi-authored wound management textbook is written primarily by nurses, for nurses. It contains 19 chapters that cover topics relevant to adult wound management nursing. Chapters include: The Skin and Healing; Assessment and Documentation; Dressings, Wound Bed Preparation; Trauma; Leg Ulcers; Pressure Ulcers; Burns; Diabetes; Best Practice and several others. The book is designed to provide pathophysiological and practical information to assist Nurses in provision of best practice care to achieve optimal patient outcomes. The book is relevant to wound management practice for Nurses of all experience levels and is applicable to a variety of settings.
Page Anneliese (co Author), 2000 Lively Legs: A self help guide for the prevention and management of Venous Leg Ulcers. Cost $2.00 Available for client’s with venous leg ulcers for education purposes.
Blackley P 1999 Practical Stoma Wound care and This book offers many practical solutions for managing people with stomas and continent diversions, leaking drainage and feeding tubes; heavy exudating, acute and chronic wounds; and continence promotion. The book was written from a 20 years practice base as a stomal therapy nurse. Pat has been dealing with these situations and the book is crammed with the tips and answers regularly asked by nurses making it a useful tool for every day nursing practice in acute, community and extended care settings. It is also used as the set text for stomal therapy nursing education programs at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and in other states in Australia.
Warren
S 1998 A-2-Z of Wound Care : A Guide for Beginners. The book is an alphabetical listing of terms and definitions commonly used in the assessment and treatment of wounds. The compilation took approximately 6 months to write. Data, definitions and terms were collected from numerous references including text-books, journal articles as well as education material and product information from the manufacturers. The reason the book was written was to provide a base standard of accepted terms and definitions for medical students, nurses and other health care providers that work with wound management, to improve their knowledge and outcomes for clients in their care. This is an issue for professional development as well as quality improvement for accreditation/documentation. The easy to follow format has blank pages for personal notes or photos so that the user can develop a comprehensive guide to aid in their provision of wound care. The appendix has instructions for basic wound care so that treatment can be initiated that follows the principles of moist wound management. The book is selling well and there is a possibility of a 2nd edition and going national instead of only being sold in South Australia. A response to the book has been requests for wound lectures, which I am happy to provide and I was asked to address the National Conference for the Australian & New Zealand Student Services Association in April 2000. Suz’Anne Warren. SYP Health Service.
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