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colour coding system

equipment

procedure guideline

regulations

source isolation rooms

water

balloon catheters

drinking, immunocompromised patients

eye irrigation

for handwashing

intestinal absorption

oral care

quality

total body

transport and movement

tubular reabsorption

wound cleaning

Waterlow pressure ulcer risk assessment

WaterPik®

water trap

water vapour

weakness, patient positioning and

weekend discharge

weighing

adults

problem solving

procedure guideline

scales

sick children

weight, body see bodyweight

weight loss, percentage

wheelchairs

lower limb amputees

patient positioning in

whistle-tipped catheters

white blood cells

count (WBC)

for transfusion

WHO see World Health Organization

wind, stoma patients

winged infusion devices

blood culture samples

venepuncture

WISECARE project

women see female patients

World Health Organization (WHO)

adverse drug reactions

analgesic ladder

oral assessment scale

theatre safety checklist

worms, parasitic

wound(s)

assessment

bleeding

breakdown, amputees

causes

checks, postanaesthetic recovery

classification

cleaning

contraction

debridement

defined

dehiscence

exudate see exudate, wound

inflammation and infection

malodour

moisture balance

moving/positioning patients with

open

pain

re-epithelialization

surgical see surgical wounds

swabs

temperature

wound bed preparation (WBP)

TIME principles

wound closure

delayed primary

devices

methods

wound drains see drains, wound

wound dressings

changing

procedure guidelines

tracheostomy

dry

last offices

moisture balance control

occlusive

poor application/techniques

pressure ulcers

primary

principles of use

secondary

surgical wounds

wet

wound healing

bacterial burden and

edge non-advancement

factors affecting

haemostasis

inflammatory phase

maturation phase

moisture balance and

nutrition and

phases

by primary intention

proliferative phase

by secondary intention

by tertiary intention

tissue factors affecting

wound infections

amputees

preoperative hair removal and

surgical wounds

wound management

moisture balance

multiple choice questions

negative pressure therapy

pressure ulcers

problem solving

procedure guideline

TIME principles

useful addresses

Wright peak flow meter

Wright respirometer

wrist bands

see also identification, patient

xerostomia see dry mouth

X-rays, diagnostic

Yates drainage system

shortening

yeasts

Yellow Card Scheme

Zomorph

Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe

Z-track technique, intramuscular injections