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.
Primary Health Care. 16, 8, 25-29. doi: 10.7748/phc.16.8.25.s4
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