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.
• What new knowledge from the research studies can be applied to improve nursing care or patient outcomes? Which nutritional supplement improve ulcerative wound healing. Please don’t add diabetic or pressure ulcers
• Apply this new knowledge from paragraphs 1 to nursing practice: What strategies will you use to implement new knowledge into patient care?
• State the methods you can use to demonstrate that nursing practice or patient care is improved.