Wound Management Research Paper

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Nowadays, wound management is part of nursing skills, which are performed regularly in surgical area. This will involve in the application of complementary therapies or conventional methods. However, in the meantime whether it is an option to use traditional or alternative medicine in wound management has sparked a debated. Some people argue that complementary therapies has a beneficial influence on the treatment of chronic leg ulcers, while many other challenge that it has a unfavourable effect as well.
A substantial argument can be made in relation to complementary and alternative medicine on its efficiency in the healing process of a chronic wound, but also promoting the cost effectiveness of complementary. To start with, the use of herbal

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