Wound care in the community: infection, exudate and conformability
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Nowhere is this truer than in the realm of wound care, where treatment choice can have a serious effect on healing and nurses often have to make ‘on-the-spot’ decisions (Hallett et al, 2000). Whereas the inpatient nurse may have access to onsite infection control teams, tissue viability specialist nurses, link nurses and various medical specialties such as vascular, plastic surgery, surgical, etc, the community practitioner may have to act alone to identify and commence treatment in a range of wound complications — infection; excess Wound care in the community: infection, exudate and conformability
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