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Education Plan To Empower Wound Care Nurses For Evidence-Based Practice, Patricia Stevenson
Education Plan To Empower Wound Care Nurses For Evidence-Based Practice, Patricia Stevenson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Non-healing wounds can claim thousands of lives and costs billions of dollars each year, and nurse-led wound clinics are becoming necessary to fill a gap in care for patients with wounds. Even among certified wound nurses using evidence-based clinical protocols, key considerations of care are being missed. Therefore, this project was focused on developing and validating a new biofilm education module for certified or certification eligible wound care nurses. The aim of the module was to boost clinical assessment knowledge and improve patient outcomes. Benners skill acquisition model informed the development of this project. The design of the project also …