Tissue Integrity ATI Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Updated 2024

A nurse is providing teaching to a client who is in a wheelchair about measures to avoid skin breakdown. Which of the following instructions by the nurse is related to preventing skin breakdown? - answer-You should shift your weight off your buttocks at intervals throughout the day A wound, ostomy and continence nurse (WOCN) is providing an in service to a group of nurses about documentation of pressure injuries. Which of the following statements by one of the group members indicates an understanding of the teaching? - answer-Pressure injury documentation includes location, stage, measurements and condition of the wound bed and any drainage present A nurse is caring for a client who has sustained a gunshot wound to the abdomen and is 6 hr postoperative. The nurse notices protrusion of the client's organs from the incision site and call for help. Which of the following actions should the nurse take? - answer-Cover the client's wound with a sterile saline dressing A nurse is teaching assistive personnel (AP) about the skin of older adults. Which of the following statements by the AP indicates an understanding of the teaching? - answer-The skin of older adults is thinner and has less subcutaneous padding over bony prominences A nurse is preparing to obtain a wound culture from a client who has a suspected wound infection. Which of the following actions should the nurse take? - answer-Clean the wound with 0.9% sodium chloride A nurse is assisting with the care of a client following abdominal surgery. The nurse removes the client's surgical dressing and n