Core Curriculum Wound Management

Detailed Features

Core Curriculum Wound Management, 2nd Edition is an essential, practical guide for wound assessment and management. This text is based on the official curriculum blueprint of the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing Education Programs (WOCNEP) and is approved by the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society™ (WOCN®), making it the perfect resource for training and WOC certification exam preparation.

Authored by expert clinicians, this book is one of the few nursing texts to provide the foundational pathology, physiology, and current clinical skills necessary for high-level wound care.

Key Features of the Book:

• Structured Learning: Each chapter includes objectives, key points, and tables with clinical guidelines.
• Practical Application: Case studies optimize clinical decision-making, and end-of-chapter review questions with answers and rationales help reinforce learning.
• Visual Aids: The book is rich with numerous illustrations, full-color photos, and tables.
• Evidence-Based Content: It incorporates the latest developments in clinical practice, serving as a complete map to gaining WOC certification and providing safe, optimal patient care.

Comprehensive Topics Covered:

• General principles of wound management, including goal-setting and systemic support.
• Wound cleansing, dressing selection, and debridement.
• Skin and wound care for diverse populations (neonatal, pediatric, geriatric, bariatric, and spinal cord–injured patients).
• Management of surgical, venous, arterial, neuropathic, and traumatic wounds.
• Assessment and management of wound-related infections.
• Prevention of moisture-associated skin damage, medical adhesive-related skin injury, skin tears, and pressure injuries.
• Fistula management.
• New chapters on professional practice and incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD).

About the Clinical Editors

• Laurie McNichol, MSN, RN, CNS, GNP, CWOCN, CWON-AP, FAAN: A Clinical Nurse Specialist and WOC nurse at Cone Health in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is a past President of both the WOCN® and the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP®) and a well-known lecturer and author in the field.
• Catherine R. Ratliff, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, CWOCN, CFCN, FAAN: A Geriatric Nurse Practitioner with over 25 years of experience and research in wound care. She is a widely published author and serves as Ostomy Section Editor for the Journal of Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing (JWOCN®).
• Stephanie S. Yates, MSN, RN, ANP-BC, CWOCN: An Adult Nurse Practitioner and WOC Nurse at Duke University Hospital Cancer Center and a past President of the WOCN®. She has lectured and published extensively on wound care.