This article explores the challenges nurses face when caring for patients with wounds in a palliative care context. Combining the principles of effective wound management with the key elements of holistic, person-centred care will ensure that realistic and patient-focused aims of management are identified. Nurses with effective communication skills can play an important role in supporting patients and their families at a difficult time.
Nursing Standard. 19, 1, 39-42. doi: 10.7748/ns2004.09.19.1.39.c3693
Correspondencejackie.chaplin@mariecurie.org.uk
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