What would the nurse teach a patient with a burn injury about skin changes that occur following a large burn?
1. Regulating body temperature returns with healing.
2. Healed burn areas are more susceptible to mechanical injury.
3. Sensory perception never returns once healing of a burn is complete.
4. Vitamin D from sun exposure facilitates the healing process.
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Rationale 1: Patients with large burns are more susceptible to infection and have difficulty regulating body temperature even after the burn wound is healed.
Rationale 2: Healed burned areas are more susceptible to mechanical injury as a consequence of changes in the texture of the skin and decrease of sensory perception.
Rationale 3: Sensation will eventually return but it may be altered.
Rationale 4: Sun exposure should be avoided because burned areas are more susceptible to ultraviolet radiation.
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