Wound Management Plan

Running head: WOUND MANAGEMENT PLAN 1
Wound Management Plan
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WOUND MANAGEMENT PLAN 2
Introduction
A wound management plan offers a chronology of events that enable the care providers
to monitor the recovery of an injury (Brown, Edwards, Seaton, & Buckley, 2017). The type of
care that clinicians offer to the client depends on the type and severity of the wound. The plan
involves an assessment where the patients give their medical history and narrate how they
encountered the injury. The clinician then identifies the specific health issue as a result of the
wound (Carville, & Watts, 2015). The care providers then plan and implement their ideas to
manage the wound. Finally, the caregivers evaluate to check whether their efforts succeeded to
cure the injury. This essay will discuss a management plan towards a patient who has suffered
from second-degree burns.
Diagnosis
Miss Ruth Roswell was frying Twinkies in her Kitchen when the pan accidental fall from
the fire to her foot causing severe burns. Her husband rushed her to the hospital for check-up and
treatment of the partly burnt foot. The physicians examined the burned and declared that it was a
second-degree burn. The burn had affected the dermis and the epidermis. The scorched area was
red, and then Miss Ruth complained of severe pain in the area. The medical history of the patient
indicates that she is a non-vegetarian. Due to her inability to take vitamin-rich foods such as
vegetables, her wound may take longer to heal. Further tests revealed the burn caused the patient
to have both hypovolemia and hypothermia (Akbari et al., 2015). The conditions cause a
reduction in the volume of blood and temperature.
Evaluation of the Wound
Miss Ruth's wound is red in color and moist in appearance. Moreover, blisters are
developing around the location of the injury. The patient is complaining of intense pain and is
crying at the same time. The burn has created a scar on foot. However, the skin surrounding the
injury is intact due to instant response of bringing Ruth to the health facility. There is no awful
odor of the wound. The wound has covered almost three-quarters of the feet translating to three
centimeters. The burn has affected both the upper layer of the skin and the internal dermal layer.
Therefore, the physicians have categorized it to be a second-degree type due to the ten percent
severity of the burn (Konieczynska et al., 2016).
Impacts of the Wound
The patient is complaining of severe pain due to her burnt foot. Moreover, Ruth's
husband admits that the wife cannot carry on her daily chores. The pain makes it difficult for
Ruth to move from one place to the other thus staying most of the time indoors.
Physiology of the Healing Process
The severity of the wound makes the process of healing to take two to three months. Second
degree burnt injuries require an extended time to cure both the upper and inner layers of the skin
(Ono et al., 2015). The foot is a less sensitive area; hence the healing process cannot exceed five
months. Furthermore, Miss Ruth is a young patient having actively dividing cells. Rapid cell
division and differentiation results in a quicker healing process than slow divisions.
Evaluation of the Wound Management Plan
The dressing type here is the hydrocolloid one. The hydrocolloid dressing is a patch kind
of dressing that applies to form agents such as gel (Dutra et al., 2016). The outer part of the patch
has a water resistant section which is flexible hence speeding the formation of the gel. The
dressing is efficient and straightforward to use in wound management. The maintenance is also
easy as the physician can change it after every two to four days. The caregivers use antibacterial
detergents to clean their hands before cleaning the wound. The care providers then apply cool,