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... the needs which arise and contribute and develop a plan of care. This would be done by assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating which is the constant cycle of the nursing process. (Alexander et al, 2000). Miss A is an elderly lady who has lived with her sister for many years; she has limited mobility and relies on her sister for most of her care. Miss A is a very private woman and required encouragement from her sister for the nurse to attend to assess her wound which was thought to be a leg ulcer, she also felt generally unwell. Leg ulcers cost the NHS approximately £400m per year and is estimated that at any one time 100,000 individuals will receive treatment for this condition in the community, which remains to be the most frequent encountered wound that community nurses are called upon to treat (Williams, 1996). A leg ulcer is defined ...