Apply Principle of Wound Management in the Clinical Environment Assignment
Assessment Task 1 - Questioning
Answer all questions -
1. How would you ensure that your client's privacy and dignity are maintained during holistic assessment and wound management activities?
2. Label the following diagram of the skin layers.
3. List the stages of wound healing. For each stage describe the critical changes that occur at cell, biochemical and tissue level, using appropriate medical terminology.
4. Outline 5 key factors that may affect wound healing, including psychological impact of a wound on the person's activities of daily living. What is the ideal environment for wound healing?
5. The clinical appearance of a wound is very important in the assessment of healing progress and also to identify the stage of healing that a wound is at.
Define the following characteristics of wound tissue:
a. Necrotic
b. Sloughy
c. Granulating
d. Epithelizing
6. Wound infection is a serious complication which may delay or reverse healing leading to greater tissue damage or systemic illness. State the 5 common clinical manifestations of wound infection. How can you prevent, minimise cross-infection, consider client/family education.
7. Wound exudate can be described as being serous, haemoserous, sanguinous or purulent. State the characteristics of each:
a. Serous
b. Haemoserous
c. Sanguinous
d. Purulent
8. List 3 other characteristics of wound exudate that you would include in your assessment of a person's wound.
9. List 3 criteria to consider when undertaking assessment of the skin surrounding a wound.
10. Pain related to a wound needs to be assessed and treated promptly and appropriately. List 5 factors that may contribute to pain related to a wound.
11. State 4 ways wounds can have a psychosocial impact on an individual's ADL's.
12. State 10 factors you would consider in developing a wound management plan and provide rationale for each factor stated.
13. List the members of the health care team who may be involved in wound management in the hospital setting.
14. As part of the management plan, what 4 key instructions should be included when educating the client/family in regard to wound-damage/infection prevention strategies?
15. State 5 intrinsic client factors/conditions that may increase the risk of wound development and/or delay wound healing.
16. For the following dressing categories, identify the key indication for use and provide rationale for your answer. Also state one example (brand) of the product.
a. Semipermeable film
b. Foam
c. Hydrocolloid
d. Hydrogel
e. Alginates
f. Multilayer absorbent pad
g. Odour absorbing
h. Pressure reducing
i. Silicone
j. Ionic Silver
k. Haemostatic agent
I. Manuka honey
m. Negative pressure therapy devices
17. It is the nurse's responsibility to observe and document healing progress. With regard to a surgical wound with staples insitu, what 5 specific observations would you make?
18. State 5 criteria you would use in evaluating the effectiveness of wound management strategies.
19. State 5 criteria you would use in assessing the effectiveness of a dressing product for a particular wound taking into consideration cost effective framework.
20. Ulcers occurring on the lower leg may be complex in their aetiology and are a sign of underlying disease, trauma or allergic response.
Define the following types of ulcers that typically occur on the lower leg indicate what type of treatment would be used on each type of ulcer, for example compression therapy.
a. Arterial ulcers
b. Venous ulcers
c. Mixed Arterial/Venous
d. Neuropathic ulcerating wound
e. What is Doppler Ultrasound used for
21. Pressure Injury is one of the most common hospital acquired injuries. In order to accurately assess the depth of a Pressure Injury we utilise a 5 stage assessment model. State the key characteristics for each of the five stages.
22. State the 3 principle causes of Pressure Injury and include a brief description of how each cause contributes to the development of a Pressure Injury.
23. State 3 intrinsic factors that may lead to a person sustaining a Pressure Injury.
24. Skin Tears are the most commonly acquired traumatic wound by people living in residential aged care.
a) State the name of the classification system used to identify the severity of a skin tear.
b) List the 3 categories of Skin Tear and state the assessment criteria for each.
c) State the 3 most appropriate dressing categories to be used for dressing skin tears.
25. Your patient had skin graft to his lower left leg which has taken well. The order is daily dressing and weekly wound measurement. His donor site is on right thigh, covered with dry dressing which is now oozing through. The order is not to disturb the dressing for another 5 days. What are you going to do? Which members of the interdisciplinary team are you going to consult about this issue?
26. Find current nursing article from the Clinical Key On line library on wound management which discusses best practice and latest research and attach to the assessment. Write a short summary and why you chose the article.
27. Under what circumstances you will see wound drain and why?
28. What is the importance of wound cleaning. Explain the difference between primary and secondary dressings.
Assessment Task 2 - Scenario
1. Include members of multidisciplinary team who will be part of his treatment and discharge planning, including community support post discharge.
2. The registered nurse you are working with has delegated the task of collecting the specimen to you. What equipment will you need to gather in preparation for collecting the specimen? Why the doctor did ordered the swab?
3. Describe how you will perform the specimen collection: ensure that all aspects of patient care are addressed and the specimen collection method you employ is based on best available evidence, is it advisable to clean the wound before collecting the specimen or after? Give rationale.
Gain patient's consent-inform them what you are going to do. Wash hands with soap and water. Put on gloves. Remove the old dressing and put it into the garbage bag. Observe wound and take note of wound characteristics and look for abnormalities. Change gloves. Clean trolley with solution and dry it thoroughly. Open dressing pack using aseptic technique. Set up the dressing pack on the trolley. Infection will be the exudate, so DO NOT clean the wound! Prepare the swab and take the sample depending on the method required
Swab for exudate
Z technique
Lavine technique
Swabbing in a zigzag pattern and rotating
Swab area of viable tissue where signs of infection are present. Put the swab into a transport medium. Take off gloves and clean hands with soap and water. Label containers with patient's name, date specimen collected and time and type and unit number. Place into pathology bag with the slip. Dispose of the dressing pack appropriately, cleanse trolley with solution and return to the appropriate storage area. Send swab to pathology ASAP. Document into the patient's notes. (Dorevitch Pathology, 2011; Gibb, 2013: Grampians Region Health Collaborative, 2011).
4. What is the potential cause of suspected infection, describe the importance of infection prevention in patients with burns.
5. Define National Safety and Quality Health Services Standards as related to this scenario.
6. State the documentation you would include in Mr. Henderson's progress notes.
The time and date that you took the specimen (MC&S), the site and location of the wound where the swab was done, the type of specimen or swab that was done, the time that it was sent to pathology, the time it was placed to be picked up. That the dressing was redressed/changed as per the wound chart, if there were any changes or deteriorations list them- all details in the notes and state that you notified a more senior nurse and also the patient's Doctor. (Dorevitch Pathology, 2011; Gibb, 2013: Grampians Region Health Collaborative, 2011).
Scenario Three -
Cathy Cartwheel is 77 years old lady, she is living independently with her husband. She has a past history of Hypertension Type 2 Diabetes, OA in her right knee. She developed an ulcer which has been diagnosed as Diabetic ulcer. In the she suffered from venous ulcer due to Hypertension and impaired circulation.
1. Define pathophysiology of Diabetic, Venous and arterial ulcer, include signs and symptoms and how would you differentiate those.
2. What tools are used to diagnose ulcers?
3. Describe treatment for Diabetic, Venous and Arterial ulcers. Compare contemporary treatment strategies with available treatment in the past. Outline historical development in wound care practices.
4. You are her community nurse, create a care plan with time frames for reviews using primary health care principles and holistic.
Approach to plan her wound care, consider dietary intake, diabetes management. What health care professionals you will involve to help Cathy to manage her wound and wound healing effectively. Include need for pain relieve for Cathy.
5. Create an educational lifestyle program for her and her family, including infection prevention and understanding modes of transmissions.
6. During the wound assessment you have noticed that there is significant amount of slough covering area from 1200 o'clock to 6 o'clock of the wound bed. Define the terminology of slough and why would you need to debride the area. How is debridement done and what is your scope of practice in this instance?
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