A client with a chronic venous ulcer requires dressing changes every hour. The client asks the nurse to leave the wet dressing to save on costs for supplies. How should the nurse respond?

Ramanpreet Kaur Sidhu

ID: 137304

Question

A client with a chronic venous ulcer requires dressing changes every hour. The client asks the nurse to leave the wet dressing to save on costs for supplies. How should the nurse respond? 
 
   Ramanpreet Kaur Sidhu   
 
 ID: 137304

Accepted Answer

"Wet or soiled dressings are a reservoir for pathogens and should be changed regularly"

Answer

"We can modify the dressing changes to four times a day"

Answer

"Since this is a chronic wound we can order compression stockings"

Answer

"Chronic wounds use medical asepsis, so drainage can sit on the wound longer"

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