Volume 54 - Issue 8 - August, 2008
Feature
Empirical Studies
08/01/2008
Acquisition of expertise in any area requires practice. The introduction of high-fidelity simulation into healthcare professionals' education programs has created many new opportunities for training. In addition to providing a safe learning...
Acquisition of expertise in any area requires practice. The introduction of high-fidelity simulation into healthcare professionals' education programs has created many new opportunities for training. In addition to providing a safe learning...
Acquisition of expertise in...
08/01/2008
Wound Management & Prevention
08/01/2008
Healing chronic wounds is a multifactorial process.1 Treatment of the underlying disease and extrinsic factors such as patient adherence to regimens2 and concomitant medication3 must be addressed, along with several wound-based parameters,...
Healing chronic wounds is a multifactorial process.1 Treatment of the underlying disease and extrinsic factors such as patient adherence to regimens2 and concomitant medication3 must be addressed, along with several wound-based parameters,...
Healing chronic wounds is a...
08/01/2008
Wound Management & Prevention
PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
08/01/2008
A few years back, I had a mole removed and covered the resulting wound with a hydrocolloid bandage. My first dressing change was uneventful. During a subsequent dressing change a few days later, I cleaned the exudate and dressing residue...
A few years back, I had a mole removed and covered the resulting wound with a hydrocolloid bandage. My first dressing change was uneventful. During a subsequent dressing change a few days later, I cleaned the exudate and dressing residue...
A few years back, I had a mole...
08/01/2008
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
Guest Editorial
08/01/2008
Healthcare costs in the US continue to rise two to three times the consumer price index.1 Yet while healthcare spending per capita in the US far exceeds every major industrialized nation, our healthcare system lags,2 with large numbers...
Healthcare costs in the US continue to rise two to three times the consumer price index.1 Yet while healthcare spending per capita in the US far exceeds every major industrialized nation, our healthcare system lags,2 with large numbers...
Healthcare costs in the US...
08/01/2008
Wound Management & Prevention
