Library Guides: Professional Practice Skills: Asepsis & Wound Care

Asepsis & Infection Control

Infection Control Skills & Techniques (Video Duration: 12 minutes)
This video provides comprehensive training on infection control skills and techniques in healthcare settings, covering crucial topics such as understanding the chain of infection, implementing effective hand hygiene practices, and personal protective equipment (PPE).
Aseptic Nursing Technique at the Bedside
This is a playlist of 38 short video segments covering a wide range of aspects associated with Aseptic Nursing Techniques at the Bedside.
Mosby's Nursing Skills: Asepsis and Infection Control
This collection of seven short video segments covers; proper procedures for ensuring infection control, discussing hand hygiene, the use of personal protective equipment, and establishment of a sterile field.
Performing Sterile Gloving: Clinical Skills Essentials Collection (Video Duration 2 minutes)
This video demonstrates how to use sterile methods when putting on gloves.
Infection Control (Video Duration 12 minutes)
This video reviews two basic infection control practices: handwashing and glove usage. It also covers the three links in the chain of infection.

Wound Care

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 video 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.
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.