ESSENTIALS OF WOUND MANAGEMENT FOR NURSES

The wound looks worse a week after you started treating it, and you're not sure whether the dressing failed or the diagnosis was wrong.

Bedside nurses carry most of the day-to-day decision-making in wound care, yet most nursing curricula give the topic a single lecture. The gap between what a shift actually demands, staging a pressure injury correctly, telling a venous ulcer from an arterial one, choosing the right dressing for a heavily draining wound, shows up at 2 a.m. with no attending in sight.

This 2026 edition closes that gap with twenty-five chapters that follow a working nurse's actual decision path, from skin physiology and wound bed preparation through pressure injury prevention, venous and arterial disease, diabetic foot ulcers, surgical and traumatic wounds, and pediatric and palliative special cases.

• Twenty-five clinically anchored chapters, each built around a returning patient case that evolves as new findings emerge
• Two custom clinical illustrations per chapter with exact anatomical and procedural labeling
• Mechanism Map boxes breaking down trigger, pathway, effect, and clinical sign for every major wound process
• Clinical pearls in every subchapter, plus decision-ready tables and differential comparisons throughout
• A free QR-linked video course of over fifty lecture videos organized to mirror the book's chapters

Every chapter is written the way a charge nurse actually teaches a new hire: at the bedside, case first, mechanism second.

Scan the code inside, work through the companion videos alongside the text, and turn the next uncertain wound into a confident assessment.