Wound Care Education in Nursing: A European Perspective, 1st ed. 2024

This book focuses on wound care education in nursing studies in Europe. It covers the following main topics: wound care curriculum, competence areas in wound care, learning goals and content and teaching methods. This book also includes information about post-graduate wound care education, covers aspects of competence and its assessment in the wound care context, as well as multi-professional education and future trends in the field of wound care education and its research.

This book gives practical and evidence-based information and tools for its primary readers, wound care educators, to help them implement the newest knowledge into teaching. Wound care education is often fragmented and unstructured, and with the help of this book, educators and teachers can plan and realise their teaching and competence assessment based on the most actual knowledge and evidence to meet the competence requirements of graduating registered nurses. Furthermore, the book can also help educators unify wound care education within Europe as this book is based on international literature.

This book can also help wound care researchers by providing and summarising the latest evidence on this topic in one source; help the researchers identify the possible knowledge gaps and needs for future research and implementation in this area; help clinicians and advanced nurse practitioners to develop and implement wound care education in working life to increase the wound care competence of registered nurses.

Dr. Minna Stolt is PhD, BHc (podiatry)/podiatrist and Professor in Nursing Science in the University of Eastern Finland, Department of Nursing Science and docent at the University of Turku, Department of Nursing Science (Finland). She is Fellow at the European Academy of Nursing Science (FEANS) and Fellow of the Faculty of Podiatric Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow, Scotland (FFPM RCPS). She leads the research project “Function and health – from foot to head” that focus on functional health on patients with long-term health problems aiming to promote the quality of care and rehabilitation with particular interest to foot health. Dr. Stolt has systematically increased the foot health research in the field of nursing science and developed an instrument to measure patients’ foot health level that is used in different health care settings. She has approached the functional health from many perspectives, namely: examining health care professionals’ competencies, health care ethics and the promotion of pa

Provides new and evidence-based information on wound care education in nursing

Includes practical content and tools for educators and researchers

Covers both pre-and post-graduate as well as multi-professional wound care education