Job description: While nurse are extraordinarily skilled and integral to wound healing, they are not trained to establish a diagnosis.They assess the wound by evaluating it and then reporting their findings to a physician. Physicians are trained to identify the cause of the wound, look at the many related factors and then create a plan of treatment. It is the nurses responsibility to carry out the treatment plan.
Answered 9/28/2016
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The "Plan": takes into account the type of wound, location, duration, nature, size, presence or absence of infection, inflammation, depth and existence of any complicating associated medical issues among other things,
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