Book Title: Wound Care Management
Chapter 5: Cleansing and Skin Care
Overview:
- Informs on the general principles of wound cleansing
- Addresses the different wound-cleansing methods
- Focuses on the two main groups of antimicrobial agents; antiseptics and antibiotics
- Advises on general skin care and care of denuded skin
Description:
Effective wound management requires removal of debris and foreign bodies from wound tissue. Until the wound is clean, inflammation persists and optimum wound healing cannot occur. In this chapter learn about general wound cleansing and skin care…
Topics:
- General principles of wound cleansing
- Aseptic technique and clean technique
- Aseptic technique
- Clean technique
- Choosing aseptic or clean technique
- Wound-cleansing methods
- Wound swabbing and/or debridement
- Irrigation
- Bathing
- Antimicrobial agents
- Antiseptics
- Tap water and normal saline
- Antibiotics
- General skin care
- Skin-cleansing agents
- Moisturisers
- Care of denuded skin
Speaker / Author:
Therese Chand
After finishing a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of the Philippines, Therese Chand worked in the emergency room of the University of the Philippines/ Philippines General Hospital. She migrated to Australia in 1997. Therese has worked as a paediatric nurse at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children (Sydney, Australia) and as a clinical nurse consultant specialising in stomal therapy, tracheostomy care, and wound management. She has a special interest in nursing education and has lectured at the NSW College of Nursing, at the University of Sydney, and in the community. Therese has facilitated seminars and study days on wound management and stomal therapy. She has published several papers in nursing journals and was recipient of the Nurses Publication Award in 2003 (Children’s Hospital Medical Council). Therese was a member of a nursing team that received an innovation award from the NSW Department of Health for a project that reduced the incidence of pressure areas in children. In addition to her nursing degree, Therese holds a graduate diploma in health science (nurse education), a certificate in stomal therapy, and a certificate in ICU/CCU nursing.
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