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The wound nurse is assessing a newly healed full thickness wound and explains to the patient the scar is stiff and at risk of injury due to what cellular structure missing?

One of your wound patients has a serum albumin level of 3.7 mg/dl. Their eating habits are good and they do not have a chronic disease. Which of the following interpretations of this information is correct?

Use of compression therapy to treat a venous ulcer is CONTRAINDICATED in a patient with:

Upon your assessment of Mrs. Jones’s sacral pressure injury, you note a lack of reduction of size in a clean granulating wound for the last 4 weeks. You recommend the use of electrical stimulation because of the following positive effects:

A home-care patient has a 2 cm X 2 cm partial-thickness thermal injury on the left lower leg. Your instructions to the patient for cleansing the burn site would include:

You are assessing the skin of a patient in ICU who is hemodynamically unstable. You recommend which of the following to prevent pressure injury development?

In the long-term care setting, wound care dressing selection should be PRIMARILY based on:

The prolonged presence of wound drainage or moisture on the periwound skin predisposes the skin to develop:

During the maturation phase of wound healing, wound dressings are most likely indicated to:

You have implemented hospital policies for the prevention and early management of skin maceration because you understand that excessive moisture is a risk factor for which of the following skin conditions?