10/15/13 Me to group Here are 10 steps I thought of with substeps.

INTRODUCTION Purpose Materials list Sections

1. Preparation a. Gather materials b. Wash hands, apply gloves 2. Place arm on surface a. On chux pad, emesis basin 3. Clean wound a. Remove large debris b. Flush, irrigate upper end downward (or use medical terms superior to inferior) c. Catch runoff for appropriate disposal 4. Dry wound, apply antibiotic ointment? a. With sterile dressing 5. Apply strips/dressing a. Sterile technique 6. Wrap wound a. Ensure circulation still intact 7. Document actions a. Wound size, solution used 8. Gather trash a. Dispose of appropriately 9. Wash hands 10. Wipe area clean a. Disinfection solution

CONCLUSION 10/20/13 From Andrea & Hoang to group INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this User Manual is to provide essential information on how to care for minor abrasions. It includes a list of materials to perform the procedure in ensuring the treatment and safety of the user. These step-by-step procedures of preparation, cleaning, dressing, and disposal are user friendly and contain illustrations to guide users with the utmost proper care. Minor abrasions are a wound that is closely related to the scraping of the skin caused by an injury. Damage is done on the surface of the skin and does not necessarily require the care of a doctor unless the wound is deeply severe. This manual is designed for all users. It is written in a format that is understandable for beginners and advanced individuals.

CONCLUSION Properly following these step-by-step processes can reduce or eliminate the risks of an infection. To ensure the wound to heal safely, regulating and inhibiting the infection is crucial. Without controlling the injury, bacteria can cause negative effect in woundhealing. These effects include causing an infection or slowing down the healing-process. 10/20/13 Further communication between group What do you mean by source? I figured we would make a few references per APA style to cover all of our bases. On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Andrea Nguyen <andrea_nguyen92@yahoo.com wrote: im curious, can we source intros and conclusions because it is an instruction manual? On Sunday, October 20, 2013 2:16 PM, Geoff Dayne <geoffdayne@gmail.com> wrote: Looks good. Do we need references for the statements regarding wound healing, infection, etc? Makes logical sense, but I don't know how she wants citations. FYI, I'm at step 11 without pictures. I'll hopefully send it out by tonight.

I put the introduction and conclusion in with the steps for our instruction manual so we can show a draft today. I may tweak it a little between now and class but I wanted everyone to get a look at it. Dorothy, Do you know how to change the formatting? On the first page when I put in a materials list, even when I change the line spacing to single space, the materials list only will come

up in double space. Do we want to possibly change to three steps per page? There is quite a bit of space at the bottom of each page. I know white space is okay, but wanted to know what everyone else thought. 10/30/13 Me to Dorothy Dorothy, I edited the introduction and conclusion a bit. Please let me know what you think. Also, not to be a big pain, but I was wondering about two things. Could we/should we increase the white space by adding a smaller row (three rows) and making the borders clear so we would have picture white space then the next step? Also do you forsee a problem with the header "Section 5: Clean-up" on the page for the conclusion and references? Should we maybe make a header for conclusion and references or eliminate a header there? Should we make "wash hands" in step 12 in red as well for consistency?