Wound Management.

Modern wound management is a challenging and rewarding area of clinical practice for the student nurse. This modern approach involves simple advances in practice. Firstly, modern wound management uses moist wound healing processes that have been researched and determined to be significantly more effective than the dry healing of the past. Secondly, and more importantly, it is a more holistic approach that looks at more than the wound itself, but addresses the whole patient in …

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