The newly expanded and updated Wound Care Essentials: Practice Principles, 4th edition is your go-to clinical guide to assessing and treating the full range of skin and wound conditions--from common to less common, simple to complex, and acute to chronic. This comprehensive, easy-read handbook provides practical guidance on the many aspects of wound care, including the legal, ethical, psychological, and social aspects. This is an essential guide for advanced practice nurses and nurse practitioners, nursing students, physician’s assistants, dermatology physicians, family physicians, and physical therapists. Tap into these evidence-based skills and care strategies, and handle the complexities of wound care with confidence.

Quality of life and chronic wound care -- Reimbursement regulations impacting wound care -- Legal aspects of wound care -- Skin: an essential organ -- Acute and chronic wound healing -- Wound assessment -- Bioburden infection -- Wound debridement -- Wound treatment options -- Nutrition and wound care -- Pressure redistribution: seating, positioning, and support surfaces -- Pain management and wounds -- Pressure ulcers -- Venous disease and lymphedema management -- Arterial ulcers -- Diabetic foot ulcers -- Sickle cell ulcers -- Surgical reconstruction of wounds -- Tube, drain, and fistula management -- Atypical wounds -- Wounds in special populations -- Pressure ulcers in neonatal and pediatric populations -- Palliative wound care -- Wound gallery.