Clinical question choice 2: Nutrition in wound healing
Amelia is a student nurse working in a residential facility caring for Iris Johnson a 92-year-old female with an ulcerative wound to her left lateral malleolus. The ulcer is 2cm in diameter and sloughy in appearance with minimal hemoserous exudate. Iris has been prescribed vitamin D and folic acid supplements to help with the healing process, however Amelia’s buddy nurse says that this is silly because nutrition has nothing to do with wound healing.
The following article is to be used in your annotated bibliography. You will still need to source two (2) further articles that are up to 7 years old to complete the annotated bibliography.
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Haughey, L., & Barbul, A. (2017). Nutrition and lower extremity ulcers : Causality and/or treatment. The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds, 16(4), 238-243. https://doi.org/10.1177/15347346177376 EISBN: 1552-6941
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