Burn and Complex Skin Injury Nursing Clinical Manual: Initial Assessment, Fluid Management, Wound Care, Infection Prevention, and Rehabilitation - Softcover

Batts, Marilyn C

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798194643752

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

A practical clinical reference for nurses caring for patients with burns and complex skin injuries across acute, perioperative, and rehabilitation settings.

Burn and Complex Skin Injury Nursing Clinical Manual provides a structured, bedside-focused approach to the assessment, stabilization, treatment support, monitoring, and recovery needs of patients with thermal burns and other complex skin injuries. Written for nurses and advanced clinical learners, the manual emphasizes organized decision-making, patient safety, timely escalation, and continuity of care from initial presentation through rehabilitation and discharge.

The book begins with immediate assessment, stabilization, burn-size and depth evaluation, airway and smoke-exposure concerns, and fluid resuscitation. It then moves into wound assessment, cleansing, dressing management, pain and procedural comfort, infection prevention, graft and donor-site care, nutritional and metabolic support, and the nursing management of electrical, chemical, cold, and other complex skin injuries.

Later chapters focus on rehabilitation, positioning, mobility, scar management, contracture prevention, psychosocial recovery, discharge readiness, and long-term functional goals. Clinical scenarios, red-flag alerts, documentation points, skills checklists, review questions with rationales, and chapter summaries reinforce practical application throughout the text.

Inside this clinical manual, readers will find:

• Rapid priorities for initial burn assessment and stabilization
• Burn-size, depth, severity, and reassessment principles
• Airway injury, smoke exposure, and respiratory monitoring guidance
• Fluid resuscitation, perfusion, urine-output, and hemodynamic surveillance concepts
• Burn wound cleansing, dressing, topical therapy, and wound-monitoring principles
• Pain, anxiety, sedation, sleep, and procedural-comfort considerations
• Infection-prevention, sepsis-recognition, and isolation practices
• Excision, grafting, donor-site, and postoperative nursing care
• Nutrition, metabolic support, electrolyte, and glycemic-management considerations
• Electrical, chemical, cold, friction, radiation, and other complex skin-injury care
• Rehabilitation, positioning, splinting, scar management, and contracture prevention
• Clinical appendices, monitoring tools, documentation templates, and a comprehensive glossary

This manual is designed as an educational and professional reference. It supports clinical reasoning and nursing practice but does not replace institutional protocols, prescriber orders, emergency medical evaluation, or individualized treatment decisions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798194643752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326