COLLEGE OF HEALTH
SCIENCE
BAYERO UNIVERSITY KANO
FACULTY OF ALLIED HEALTH
SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF NURSING
SCIENCE
TOPIC: WOUND DRESSING
GROUP: 3
DATE: 2ND MARCH, 2020.
GROUP MEMBERS
S/ NAME REG. NO.
N
1 MUTAWAKKILU ABDULLAHI YUSUF AHS/18/NUR/00252
2 SAUDAT S. SANI AHS/18/NUR/00288
3 NAZIFA HAFIZ UMAR AHS/18/NUR/00295
4 AMINA AHMAD BAYI AHS/18/NUR/00259
5 AMINA YUSUF HASHIM AHS/18/NUR/00287
6 HALIMA AUDI AHMAD AHS/18/NUR/00261
7 NURA MUSA HARUNA AHS/18/NUR/00279
8 IBRAHIM UMAR MUHAMMAD AHS/17/NUR/00047
9 SAIFULLAHI SALEH MIKO AHS/17/NUR/00062
10 ZAINAB YUSUF RABIU AHS/17/NUR/00128
11 MARYAM MUHAMMAD SA’IDU AHS/17/NUR/00121
12 HAULAH LAWAN MUSTAPHA AHS/16/NUR/00451
13 ALICE EMMANUEL AHS/16/NUR/00432
14 ASHIRU IBRAHIM MAI GISHIRI AHS/17/NUR/00041
15 RUMASA’U BALARABE YARO AHS/17/NUR/00025
16 AISHA HAMISU ABUBAKAR AHS/16/NUR/00437
17 BABATUNDE NAOMI TINUOLUWA AHS/17/NUR/00022
18 MARYAM MUHAMMAD LADAN AHS/18/NUR/00289
19 ABDALLAH OLAJIDE IBIKUNLE AHS/18/NUR/00031
20 IRENE SHERIFAT NYAN AHS/16/NUR/00462
21 ABDULLAHI AHMAD MUHAMMAD AHS/17/NUR/00017
Definition
Dressing: is a sterile pad or compress applied to wound
Wound: is a type of injury which happen relatively quickly in which skin is turn
out or punctured
Wound dressing: can simply be defined as the total hygiene given to a wound so
as to prevent contamination and promote healing
Principle involve in wound dressing
1. Explain procedure to the patient to the level of his understanding and gain
patient consent
2. Adequate hand washing before and after dressing
3. Close nearby windows and minimize human traffication
4. Sweeping and dusting should be done an hour before dressing
5. Dressing involve two nurses procedure; dresser and assistant
6. Nurse that is having upper respiratory disease condition should not be
allowed to dress
7. Dressing is non touch procedure
8. The dresser should swipe the wound once by using swab
9. When applying bandage it should not be so tight as this will reduce the
amount of blood flow to the area
10. Provide a privacy
Purpose of wound dressing
1. To prevent infection
2. To promote healing
3. To reduce pain
4. To control bleeding
5. To promote patient comfort
6. To remove dead tissue
7. To remove foreign body
8. To improve blood supply to the area
9. To remove stitches
10.To cover the a wound in order to prevent patient embarrassment
Types of wound dressing
Wet dressing
Dry dressing
Open dressing
Close dressing
Lotions use for dressing
I. Normal saline
II. Hydrogen
III. Iodine
IV. Betadine
V. EUSOL
VI. Savlon
VII. Spirit
VIII. Gential violet
IX. Metronidazole
X. Horney
Requirement
Trolley is required
Top shelf; all requirements are sterile
Large tray with lid containing the following
Three dressing forceps
One pair of dissecting forceps
Surgical scissors
Three galli pots
Bowl with cover containing dressing towel and mackintosh
Bottom shelf; all requirements are clean
Large tray containing the following
Bottles of lotions
Bandage
Plaster
Counter scissor
Latex examination glove
Face mask
vaseline guaze
six inch cotton bandage
large receiver for used instruments savlon 1: 20
pedal bin
Method of the procedure
A. The dresser explain procedure to the patient and get the patient consent
B. Assess the patient wound
C. The dresser and the assistant scrub their hand and put on mask and gloves
D. Clean the trolley with disinfectant
E. The dresser will set the top shelf requirement using cheatle forceps and
instruct the assistant on setting bottom shelf
F. The dresser and assistant provide privacy, position to the patient and put off
the fan
G. The dresser wheel the trolley to the patient bed side while the assistant carry
the pedal bin
H. The dresser instruct the assistant to remove the top dressing
I. The assistant open the tray and bowl and pours the lotion after showing it to
the dresser
J. The dresser pick the mackintosh with a pair dressing forceps and spread it
under the area to be dressed without contaminating the forceps and then
place the dressing towel in the same manner
K. The inner dressing is removed before the dressing forceps is discarded
L. Use second dressing forceps to dress the wound first from the cleanest area
to the dirties area using each swab once and only in one direction
M. The wound itself is clean in the same manner using as many swab as needed
and discard the used forceps
N. Prescribed lotion powder etc. is applied to the wound, cover the wound with
sterile guaze using the remaining dressing forceps including dissecting
forceps especially in folding the guaze to remove excess lotion in wet
dressing
O. The assistant is instructed to apply the bandage, plaster as the case maybe
P. The dresser remove all the requirement used from patient bed side and the
patient left in comfortable position
Q. Thank the patient for being cooperative
R. Discard the requirement accordingly
THANKS FOR LISTENING
