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WOUND CERTIFICATION EXAM SET 2
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WOUND CERTIFICATION EXAM SET 2Vitamin A. - Answers- The effects of corticosteroids on wound healing can be partially
counteracted by the administration of what supplement?
Perfusion status. - Answers- What is the most significant factor in healing an ischemic
ulcer?
Provide a gel head cushion. - Answers- 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. - Answers- 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. - Answers- Upon assessment, the nurse notes dry,
flaky skin with significant pruritis. Based upon this info, the nurse should do what for the
patient?
A foam dressing and multi-layer compression wraps. - Answers- 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. - Answers- 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. - Answers- Which
patient is most likely to benefit from a myocutaneous flap procedure?
Calcium alginate. - Answers- 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. - Answers- Use of compression therapy to treat a venous ulcer is
contraindicated in patients suffering from what?
Hypergranulation. - Answers- Silver nitrate is most commonly used for treatment of
what?
Elevating the left arm and applying hydrogel sheets to the left breast. - Answers- 34
year old patient with metastatic breast cancer has a fungating mass in her left breast
with lymphedema present in the left arm. Chemo and radiation have been completed,
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