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Due to the reduced inflammation and immune response system, which patient would present with abnormal manifestations of a healthcare-associated infection based on your knowledge of this population?

What is an expected desire for a client undergoing a bowel training program?

While completing an admission skin assessment in a long-term care facility, a resident is found to have full-thickness skin and tissue loss on their right hip. The pressure injury is obscured by slough and eschar. Based on this assessment finding, what stage of pressure injury is present?

A client had abdominal surgery this morning. The nurse notices that there is a small amount of pink drainage on the surgical dressing. The nurse would document this as what type of drainage?

The nurse is providing care to a team of clients. Which clients are at risk for injury to the skin? (Select all that apply.)

A nurse who is caring for a client diagnosed with HIV/AIDS incurs a needlestick injury when administering the client’s medications. What would be the priority action of the nurse following exposure?

What are characteristics of the stage of infection known as full stage of illness? (Select all that apply.)

Which statement is a correctly written client outcome? (Select all that apply.)

In which phase of wound healing do blood vessels constrict and blood clotting begins through platelet activation and clustering creating a fibrin clot?

What is the nurse evaluating when assessing skin turgor?