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Wound Certification Exam set 2
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Vitamin A. - ✔✔The effects of corticosteroids on wound healing can be
partially counteracted by the administration of what supplement?
Perfusion status. - ✔✔What is the most significant factor in healing an
ischemic ulcer?
Provide a gel head cushion. - ✔✔A neonate has developed a non-
erythemic eschar on the occiput. What would be the initial intervention?
Hydrofiber dressing. Hydrofibers absorb 33% more than most alignates and
wicks vertically to avoid periwound skin maceration. - ✔✔Which topical
treatment would be the most appropriate to manage a full-thickness, clean
sternal wound with copious drainage?
Use a moisturizer without lanolin. Lanolin is a sensitizer in many patients
and could increase dermatitis that is present. - ✔✔Upon assessment, the
nurse notes dry, flaky skin with significant pruritis. Based upon this info, the
nurse should do what for the patient?
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A foam dressing and multi-layer compression wraps. - ✔✔What
intervention is appropriate for a patient with a shallow, chronic ulcer on the
LRE over the lateral malleolus with a ruddy granular bed and moderate
serous drainage and pitting edema in the ankle with strong pedal pulses?
Dehiscence. - ✔✔The absence of a healing ridge in a surgical incision
between 5 & 9 days post-op is a sign of potential what?
26 year old patient with paraplegia and a stage 4 pressure injury. -
✔✔Which patient is most likely to benefit from a myocutaneous flap
procedure?
Calcium alginate. - ✔✔A patient has a full-thickness, heavily exudating
pressure injury extending to the muscle layer with extensive undermining.
Which would be the MOST appropriate dressing?
Arterial insufficiency. - ✔✔Use of compression therapy to treat a venous
ulcer is contraindicated in patients suffering from what?
Hypergranulation. - ✔✔Silver nitrate is most commonly used for
treatment of what?
Elevating the left arm and applying hydrogel sheets to the left breast. -
✔✔34 year old patient with metastatic breast cancer has a fungating
Wound Certification Exam set 2
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Vitamin A. - ✔✔The effects of corticosteroids on wound healing can be
partially counteracted by the administration of what supplement?
Perfusion status. - ✔✔What is the most significant factor in healing an
ischemic ulcer?
Provide a gel head cushion. - ✔✔A neonate has developed a non-
erythemic eschar on the occiput. What would be the initial intervention?
Hydrofiber dressing. Hydrofibers absorb 33% more than most alignates and
wicks vertically to avoid periwound skin maceration. - ✔✔Which topical
treatment would be the most appropriate to manage a full-thickness, clean
sternal wound with copious drainage?
Use a moisturizer without lanolin. Lanolin is a sensitizer in many patients
and could increase dermatitis that is present. - ✔✔Upon assessment, the
nurse notes dry, flaky skin with significant pruritis. Based upon this info, the
nurse should do what for the patient?
, ©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
A foam dressing and multi-layer compression wraps. - ✔✔What
intervention is appropriate for a patient with a shallow, chronic ulcer on the
LRE over the lateral malleolus with a ruddy granular bed and moderate
serous drainage and pitting edema in the ankle with strong pedal pulses?
Dehiscence. - ✔✔The absence of a healing ridge in a surgical incision
between 5 & 9 days post-op is a sign of potential what?
26 year old patient with paraplegia and a stage 4 pressure injury. -
✔✔Which patient is most likely to benefit from a myocutaneous flap
procedure?
Calcium alginate. - ✔✔A patient has a full-thickness, heavily exudating
pressure injury extending to the muscle layer with extensive undermining.
Which would be the MOST appropriate dressing?
Arterial insufficiency. - ✔✔Use of compression therapy to treat a venous
ulcer is contraindicated in patients suffering from what?
Hypergranulation. - ✔✔Silver nitrate is most commonly used for
treatment of what?
Elevating the left arm and applying hydrogel sheets to the left breast. -
✔✔34 year old patient with metastatic breast cancer has a fungating
