Wound Management and Care: Strategies, Products, and Principles

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Diploma of Nursing
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1. Wound ManagementMatch the following terms with the different stages of wound
healing:Inflammation, Haemostasis, Epithelialization, Maturation and Proliferation,
and granulation
Stages/Physiological and biochemical actions Stages
1.1
Stage1: Vasoconstriction,
Platelet aggregation and activation of fibrin
Hemostasis
1.2
Stage 2: Vasodilation, flushing of the wound with serous
fluid, phagocytosis;
Inflammation
1.3
Stage 3: Angiogenesis, deposition of collagen, the
formation of new tissue and wound contraction
Proliferation
1.4
Stage 4: Realignment of collagen, regaining normal
tissue strength
Maturation

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2. Give one example of a wound care product or strategy that helps with each stage of
wound healing.
Stages Wound care product or strategy
2.1
Hemostasis
Chitosan dressings
2.2
Inflammation
Polymeric membrane dressings
2.3
Proliferation and granulation
Collagen Dressings
2.4
Epithelialization and Maturation
Allogeneic cultured keratinocyte grafts
3. Complex Wounds
List five common problems to be considered in the management of complex wounds?
Wound size, body contours, the expense of complex wounds should be considered. Also,
poor nutrition, along with insufficient blood flow to the injury needs to be considered.

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4. Primary Health care principles for Wound Management
Briefly describe how to apply below mentioned Primary Health care principles in
wound management (20-50 words)
4.1
Universal access to care
It is termed as the absence of sociocultural, economic, or gender-related barriers.
Accordingly, it is applied through enabling affordable, reachable, and acceptable treatment to
everyone in need of the service (Blumenthal, 2016).
4.2
Community participation
The community nurses are usually placed to provide care since the environment is the
patient’s own home. It usually improves patient outcomes, together with wound healing rates.
4.3
Intersectoral approaches to health
This involves using other sectors outside the health but not necessarily in collaboration
with health and can help to create awareness or take precautions on the causes and ways of
wound management (Hussey et al., 2017).
5. The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards
Briefly describe the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards, ( in 10-20
words each)
5.1
Governance for Safety and Quality in Health Service Organizations
It defines the quality framework needed for medical institutions to safely enact health
systems.

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5.2
Partnering with Consumers
Defines the approaches to form a client-centered clinical system through the inclusion of
consumers in the health care quality design and development.
5.3
Preventing and Controlling Healthcare-Associated Infections
Describes systems to effectively control infections along with preventing patient
infections within a clinical system to reduce the consequences.
5.4
Medication Safety
It makes sure that health professionals safely prescribe, dispense, and administer the
proper treatment to patients.
5.5
Patient Identification and Procedure Matching
Identifies patients and matches the identity accurately with the appropriate medication.
5.6
Clinical Handover
It ensures effectual communication when answerability, as well as responsibility for the
care of a patient, is being transferred.
5.7
Blood and Blood Products
Defines systems for the proper, effective, and safe management of blood and blood
products for patients to receive the blood safely.
5.8

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Preventing and Managing Pressure Injuries
Defines systems to avoid patients with pressure wounds. Moreover, it defines strategies
for excellent management practice in case the pressure wounds happen.
5.9
Recognizing and Responding to Clinical Deterioration in Acute Health Care
Defines the processes to be enacted by medical institutions to retaliate to patients in case
their medical situation worsens.
5.10
Preventing fall and Harm from fall
Minimizes the patient fall incidences in health service institutions and describes
strategies for best practice management if the falls occur.
6. The Chain of Infection
Briefly describe the chain of infection (10-20 words each)
6.1
Infectious Disease/Agent
It is the bacteria causing disease. Whenever a bacterium enters the body, it can cause an
infection.
6.2
Reservoir
The place in the environment where the bacteria reside and multiply. The site may be
insects, medical equipment, or people (Singh, 2018).
6.3
Portal of Exit
This is the way the pathogen causing infection leaves the reservoir.