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When a nurse assesses a wound, what's the plan concerning wound care?

5 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Dr. Michael Miller answered

Specializes in Wound care

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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Dr. James Burns answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

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,

Answered 6/18/2014

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