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A number of wound management books have been written by South Australian authors.
Templeton Sue (ed) 2005 Wound Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice Ausmed Publications Victoria
Available from Ausmed Publications www.ausmed.com.au
This multi-authored wound management textbook is written primarily by nurses, for nurses. It contains 19 chapters that cover topics relevant to adult wound management nursing. Chapters include: The Skin and Healing; Assessment and Documentation; Dressings, Wound Bed Preparation; Trauma; Leg Ulcers; Pressure Ulcers; Burns; Diabetes; Best Practice and several others. The book is designed to provide pathophysiological and practical information to assist Nurses in provision of best practice care to achieve optimal patient outcomes. The book is relevant to wound management practice for Nurses of all experience levels and is applicable to a variety of settings.
Page Anneliese (co Author), 2000 Lively Legs: A self help guide for the prevention and management of Venous Leg Ulcers.
Cost $2.00 Available for client’s with venous leg ulcers for education purposes.
Available from :
Barossa Area Health Service
29 North Street
Angaston SA 5353
PH: (08) 8563 8544
FAX: (08) 8564 3434
Blackley P 1999 Practical Stoma Wound care and
Continence Management: 350 pages with illustrations
Research Publications, 27a Boronia Road Vermont, Australia 3133
Available through Ramsey’s Medical Bookshop: 98 Wright Street Adelaide $65 or the publisher (plus $10.00 postage and packaging.
This book offers many practical solutions for managing people with stomas and continent diversions, leaking drainage and feeding tubes; heavy exudating, acute and chronic wounds; and continence promotion. The book was written from a 20 years practice base as a stomal therapy nurse. Pat has been dealing with these situations and the book is crammed with the tips and answers regularly asked by nurses making it a useful tool for every day nursing practice in acute, community and extended care settings. It is also used as the set text for stomal therapy nursing education programs at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and in other states in Australia.
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