Nurse interventions urgente in hand injury: Clinical case.

Patients who arrive for treatment to wounds arefrequently to be found in our Emergency Servicesenvironment. Their injuries can very a great dealdepending on their causes, the place they happen to be atthe time and their progress, and others. The firstassessment is made by the nurse who decides whether torefer the patient to another medical professional or levelor, alternatively, if she should attend to the patientthroughout the entire treatment. Whatever thecircumstances, nursing procedures will always be applied(in the same way as usual in any health requirementsituation) and in the same way as we have done in thisclinical case in which we present a patient with aninfectious wound in his hand from the moment he arrivesat our emergency services until he is discharged and senthome..