A STUDENT’S BOOKLET TO MECHANICAL DEBRIDEMENT OF CHRONIC WOUND

Abstract

This projects’ objective is to facilitate nursing students learning experience in their clinical placements in mechanical wound debridement. The writers intended to collect knowledge on wound care especially mechanical wound debridement. The purpose is to produce a comprehensive student’s booklet to mechanical wound debridement as complementary learning material for SAMK nursing students. The critical path method was used in the implementation of this project which wherein the writers classified tasks into hierarchy, made a timeline for the task, identified task dependencies such as risk, and marking the project milestones.

The project purpose and objective were completed by doing theoretical research using reliable and updated resources about chronic wounds and wound debridement. The booklet was able to contain relevant sub-topics including anatomy of the skin, wound assessment, wound healing. The procedure of the most common wound debridement techniques was discussed. The booklet was revised and edited to improve quality of contents and include Finnish guidelines. The finalized booklet was sent to the subscribers for feedback which concluded that the booklet can be used as a complementary learning material after some minor corrections related to in-text referrals and an update to the pain relief reference. According to the results of the feedback from the target students which were the SAMK’s students in Bachelors of nursing the booklet was good in terms of its overall verdict, structure, layout, content relevance, precision and comprehension. The booklet content relevance had received a poor rating from one evaluator.

Concluding from the positive feedback from both the subscribers and the target students the purpose and objectives of the project is partially achieved. The booklet produced needed updates to the pain relief references. Some suggestions from the students can be considered in improving the booklet.