A forever healing: The lived experience of venous ulcer disease☆
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Supported by a Research Expense Grant from the Office of Research Administration, Boston College.
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Susan K. Chase is an assistant professor of Adult Health at the Boston College School of Nursing, in Chestnut Hill.
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Mary Melloni is a unit nurse leader and Amanda Savage a staff nurse at the Ambulatory Surgical Clinic of Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston.