Education is a key component when adding new nurses to your wound clinic. Getting these nurses up to speed fast is important for the flow of the clinic and the success of the new employee. There are four interconnecting approaches to wound management education including, literature, classroom, Internet, and one to one nurse interaction. Typically, the first weeks of education involves reading and hands on practice.
I find that it is best not to overwhelm the new nurse in the first week, so I usually send them home with easy reading. My favorite easy reading book for new nurses and students is