Analysis of Dressing Process for Surgical Wound

Running head: ANALYSIS OF DRESSING PROCESS FOR SURGICAL WOUND
ANALYSIS OF DRESSING PROCESS FOR SURGICAL WOUND
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1ANALYSIS OF DRESSING PROCESS FOR SURGICAL WOUND
Scenario 1: Is clean wound dressing a safe option for dressing of surgical
wounds?
There are many different techniques for surgical wound care is available in the nursing
practice, for example, clean technique, sterile technique, aseptic technique and no touch
technique. Most of the nurses use the clean technique or sterile technique in order to dressing the
surgical wounds (Famakinwa et al. 2014). The research will focus on the use of most effective
dressing process and understand whether the clean dressing process is safe for dressing surgical
wounds. In order to understand the best process, proper nursing based articles are used as
evidence of the research. The article Post-operative wound management is important for
understanding the recommendation of the Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (Yao, Bae
and Yew 2013). The article from Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research has provided
evidence about the comparison of clean and sterile dressing ((Huang et al. 2016). The survey
provided by the article of the Journal of pharmaceutical sciences is reliable for the essay
(Boateng and Catanzano, 2015). The information about the risk factors of surgical wound
provided by the article of International wound journal is also acceptable (Sandy‐Hodgetts,
Carville and Leslie 2015). The article from International Journal of Basic, Applied and
Innovative Research has played an important role in order to provide the choice of nurses
regarding dressing techniques (Famakinwa et al. 2014). The chosen source for the articles is
Medline and relative key words are used to identify the appropriate journal. For example, risk
factor of surgical wound is searched as the key word, many related journals have shown by the
site and the best one is selected for the paper. With the help of the sources, the following paper
will discuss about the safety of using clean dressing technique for surgical wound.

2ANALYSIS OF DRESSING PROCESS FOR SURGICAL WOUND
The Centres of Disease Control and Prevention has recommended the sterile and clean
dressing techniques as the effective dressing process for avoiding the post-operative infections
(Yao, Bae and Yew 2013). Many nurses chose sterile dressing technique in order to heal the
surgical wounds. Whereas, others chose the clean dressing technique in order to heal the post-
operative wounds. According to study regarding clean dressing process, nurses use meticulous
hand wash, clean gloves, and try to keep the field clean in order to provide clean environment.
No sterile process or instrument is used in the clean dressing process (Famakinwa et al. 2014).
The process is mainly used during home based care and it is the effective process for dressing the
patients who are in low risk of getting infection such as wound of venous ulcers and granulation
tissues (Huang et al. 2016). The nurses use proper disinfectant and gauze in order to prevent
infection. They provide clean dressing technique as it is less expensive and the materials are
easily available (Famakinwa et al. 2014). However, there are some risk factors in using the clean
dressing technique. In the process, normal tap water is used rather than the sterile water, which
could increase the risk of infection. The process is time consuming and takes more time in order
to heal the wound. The non-sterile gauges need to be changed over short time; otherwise,
organism can contaminate the object. The non-sterilized instruments could contain infectious
organism and using such instrument in dressing of patient with high risk could lead to serious
health issue. On the other hand, some nurses use sterile dressing process in which sterile
instrument and field is used in order to prevent the risk of infection (Famakinwa et al. 2014). The
technique is useful for healing the wound that contains high risk of infection. A proper
percentage of alcohol or ethanol is used by the nurses to sterile the field of dressing. Sterile water
is used for the purpose which reduces the risk of infection. the components of sterile dressing
technique are very expansive, thus, the technique is not cost-effective at all (Huang et al. 2016).