What is the Importance of Wound Care?

Pressure ulcers, which are explained by localized skin or subcutaneous tissue damage that usually occur on bone protrusions caused by pressure or rupture and pressure, is one of the important issues that deserve to be developed and expanded, even if it is a subject that is open to development.

In order to develop the international pressure ulcer classification system, Npuap (National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel) and Epuap (European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel) guides have been introduced. By making use of both guides and discussing, common and valid data are presented.

Wound care and stoma nursing should be among the indispensable ossification staff of every hospital.

Wound care is a really strenuous, demanding subject that requires patience and dedication.

To give a simple example; Dressings are done for days to heal even a small wound on a patient's hand. You patiently wait for the wound to heal with the treatment process by asking many questions such as how it heals faster, whether it will tighten during the healing process.

You take the patient completely; nutrition, infection, physical therapy, personal hygiene and care, treatments, examination results; each becomes a piece of data that sheds light on your treatment, and we begin to treat it by acting on this whole set of information and identifying the wound.

You make your dressings with the same care and meticulousness for days. You patiently wait for the wound to heal for days, weeks, and maybe even months. Then you will see that the wound has healed.

The Wound Care and Repair Association in Turkey regularly organizes congresses and symposiums for those who give their heart to wound care. But this is insufficient. Wound care should be a more developed, stereotyped and specific field in Turkish conditions. But in many health institutions, let alone specificity, many unconscious and wrong applications are made under the name of wound care.

We should do whatever we can for the development and expansion of all specific fields of nursing by actively playing our roles in the health system in our country.