Library Guides: Practical Nursing: Wound Care

Wound Care & Management Online Videos

Irrigating Wounds: Clinical Skills Essentials Collection (Video Duration 4 minutes)
This short video shows how to irrigate a wound.
Caring for Pressure Ulcers: Clinical Skills Essentials Collection (Video Duration 6 minutes)
This video demonstrates how to care for pressure ulcers
Wound Care Part 4: Treatment Modalities (Video Duration 20 minutes)
This program teaches nurses and other healthcare providers ways to treat chronic wounds. It explains how to choose appropriate treatment modalities based on wound type and goal(s) for treatment, demonstrates appropriate wound bed preparation, shows the different types of sharp debridement, and illustrates how to perform a dressing change, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of different types of wound dressings. The program also considers various treatment modalities, including negative pressure wound therapy, electrical stimulation, hyperbaric, and ultrasound therapy.
Mosby's Nursing Skills: Wound Care
This playlist series includes a collection of 5 short video segments demonstrating how to assess and care for wounds and pressure ulcers.

Changing a Dressing: Clinical Skills Essentials Collection
This program shows how to change a dressing on a wound.
Using Wound Drainage Systems: Clinical Skills Essentials Collection (Video Duration 4 minutes)
This program shows how to use wound drainage systems.
Beyond Wound Healing
This video quantifies wound assessment and describes approaches to wound healing subjects such as the hydrobalance, hydrosorptive, hydroactive, and hydroionic methods of wound dressing; graduated compression therapy; and odor reduction are covered.

Assessing Wounds (Video Duration 6 minutes)
This program demonstrates how to assess wounds.
Wound Care Part 1: Physiology (Video Duration 17 minutes)
This program examines the physiological phases of wound healing and looks at different types of wounds. Differentiating between acute and chronic wounds, it discusses primary, seondary, and tertiary intention as they relate to wound healing and identifies risk factors that can impede wound healing.