- Describe factors affecting skin integrity.
- Identify clients at risk for pressure ulcer formation.
- Describe the four stages of pressure ulcer development.
- Differentiate primary and secondary wound healing.
- Describe the three phases of wound healing.
- Identify three major types of wound exudate.
- Identify the main complications of and factors that affect wound healing.
- Identify assessment data pertinent to skin integrity, pressure sites, and wounds.
- Identify nursing diagnoses associated with impaired skin integrity.
- Identify essential aspects of planning care to maintain skin integrity and promote wound healing.
- Discuss measures to prevent pressure ulcer formation.
- Describe nursing strategies to treat pressure ulcers, promote wound healing, and prevent complications of wound healing.
- Identify purposes of commonly used wound dressing materials and binders.
- Identify physiologic responses to heat and cold and purposes of heat and cold.
- Describe methods of applying dry and moist heat and cold.
- Identify essential steps of obtaining wound specimens, applying dressings, and irrigating a wound.
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