Complementary Therapy in Chronic Wound Management: A Holistic Caring Case Study and Praxis Model

Holistic Nursing Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 152-158

  Popoola, Mercy Mammah ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative healing modalities; Alternative therapy; Chronic wound; Complementary therapy; Holistic assessment; Holistic caring praxis

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PHILOSOPHY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0038409858     PISSN: 08879311     EISSN: 15505138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004650-200305000-00006     Document Type: Article

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