The challenges of contemporary wound care

The challenges of contemporary wound care

Providing effective wound care to clients within the Australian context poses a number of challenges. For the clinician keeping abreast of continually changing arrays of products and supporting evidence is often daunting. For the client making sense of often conflicting advice and managing the personal costs of their treatment poses a significant challenge. For the health care provider providin...

Meeting the challenges of contemporary foster care.

Over the past two decades, the foster care system experienced an unprecedented rise in the number of children in out-of-home care, significant changes in the policy framework guiding foster care practice, and ongoing organizational impediments that complicate efforts to serve the children in foster care. This article discusses the current status of the foster care system and finds: Agencies oft...

Honey and contemporary wound care: an overview.

A growing body of research and empirical evidence have supported the re-discovery of medicinal grade honey as a wound management agent. Pre-clinical study results suggest that honey has therapeutic benefit; clinical study results have shown that honey effectively addresses exudate, inflammation, devitalized tissue, and infection. Honey-containing dressings and gels have been developed to facili...

EWMA Document: Home Care-Wound Care: Overview, Challenges and Perspectives.

This document provides an overview of the main approaches to the organisation of wound care within homecare settings across Europe with case exemplars from England, Germany and the Nordic Countries. By identifying possible barriers to best practice wound care in home care settings and uncovering the preconditions needed to provide safe and high quality care for wound patients and support for th...

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