Kerrie Coleman – författare

The second edition of Wound Care: a practical guide for maintaining skin integrity offers students and nurses a highly practical approach to treating acute and chronic wounds.The book applies the latest evidence and theory to the real world, helping you develop skills and knowledge to manage wounds effectively. Each chapter provides an overview of specific wound types, followed by case studies to help you build your clinical reasoning skills, and related multiple choice questions to test your knowledge.Editors Kerrie Coleman and Glo Neilsen have worked with a skilled team of clinical experts to completely refresh and update this edition, incorporating latest developments, tips, strategies and wound care products.

Nursing Theory: A Practical Tool for the Advanced Practice Nurse in the Post Pandemic Era focuses on the re-evaluation of nursing theory in a post-pandemic world, highlighting its fluidity and its ability to enhance nursing practice. The text creates a new platform for advanced practice nursing (APN) students to view theory beyond the confines of research frameworks and as a nursing tool to support clinical, educational, and leadership practices. The book introduces a novel algorithm, MetaPORT, for evaluating clinical and educational issues, facilitating the selection of suitable nursing theories or models for innovative solutions. Structured around the nursing metaparadigm—Health, Nurse, Person, and Environment—the book engages advanced practice nursing (APN) students in metacognition, enabling them to connect professional experiences with theoretical frameworks effectively. It offers insights into practical applications of nursing theories, enabling students to devise innovative solutions to contemporary healthcare challenges. Pedagogical features include key terms for each chapter, learning objectives, reflection exercises to foster metacognizant learning, boxed callouts, and critical thinking case studies applied to simulated clinical scenarios. This is an ideal text for advanced courses in nursing theory.