Book Title: Wound Care Nursing
Chapter 19: Best Practice
Overview:
- Discusses evidence-based health care (EHBC) in relation to wound management
- Describes quantitative research, including how to rank evidence
- Refers to qualitative research and non-researched based evidence
- Summarises best practice in wound management
- Explains standards and clinical practice guidelines
Description:
This chapter describes the necessary elements for ‘best practice’ in wound care. It informs nurses on the appropriate practice that accounts for the needs of the individual, recognises clinical expertise, and incorporates the best available research-based evidence.
Topics:
- Evidence-based health care
- Evidence in wound management
- Quantitative research
- Ranking evidence
- Systematic reviews
- Meta-analyses
- Qualitative research
- Non-research based evidence: expert opinion
- Determining best practice
- Standards and clinical practice guidelines
- Standards
- Clinical practice guidelines
- Policies and procedures
Speaker / Author:
Taliesin Ellis
is a lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of South Australia. He has been involved in teaching and the practice of wound management for 18 years, specialising in dressing procedure and development of educational programs. Tal was a founding member of the South Australian Wound Management Association, and was its inaugural president. He was also a founding member of the Australian Wound Management Association, and was its inaugural secretary. He practises and consults in wound management in older people, and is a consultant to the wound management industry at large. Tal codeveloped the University of South Australia’s online wound management course in 1998 and is still the coordinator of this course. He is the co-author of the ‘Wound Field Concept’. His research interests include the evidence base for dressing procedures, skin tears, pressure ulcers, managing wounds in older people, and IT-based wound-management advances.
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