Wound Care

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Business memorandum on Wound Care
Introduction
Wound care is very vital for patients with diabetes and the elderly. The patients with diabetes are prone to wounds because of the insulin imbalances in the blood sugar levels (Shah et al., p. 49). On the other hand, the elderly are prone to wounds because they spend much of their time on the bed. The memorandum is a proposal for the creation of a healthcare program by nurses toward preventing the growth of wounds through adopting a three-time away wound care process.
Strengths
The program proposed will increase the frequency of wound care delivery per day hence improving on the outcome.
The program proposed will act as a working schedule for nurses when it comes to attending to patients that need wound care.
The program will end up improving on patient outcomes by mitigating the effects of the wound which some patients it could be fever, severe pain and even limiting a patients mobility (Kaplan, Daly, and Stemkowski, p. 129).
Weaknesses
The program will be demanding as far as nursing resources are a concern. There is a scarcity of nurses (Heckemann et al., p. 214) and therefore the program may fail due to inadequate nurses.
The program will require a lot of resources that are needed to provide wound care.
Opportunities
The program will act as safety adherence measure when it comes to offering wound care since when a patient misses a wound care routine at one time, they will be assured of two other changes within the day.

The proposed program will provide a perfect avenue through which nurses and patients will be able to be aware and more informed of their nursing role when it comes to wound care routines.
Threats
The main deficit of the program is that it does not provide a preventive measure against wound development.
Conclusion
Wound care is essential for the successful healing of wounds. Nurses are at the center of the care because they have the skills of providing the care. The three times a day wound care program proposed aims at improving the care by increasing the frequency of delivery. However, the limited number of nurses may limit the program.
Work Cited
Heckemann, B., et al. “The effect of aggression management training programmes for nursing staff and students working in an acute hospital setting. A narrative review of current literature.” Nurse education today 35.1 (2015): 212-219.
Kaplan, Mark, Darron Daly, and Stephen Stemkowski. “Early intervention of negative pressure wound therapy using vacuum-assisted closure in trauma patients: impact on hospital length of stay and cost.” Advances in skin & wound care 22.3 (2009): 128-132.
Shah, Prachi, et al. “Ethical consideration in Wound treatment of the elderly patient.” Journal of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists 6.3 (2014): 46-52.