A physician documents that a patient has a scleral icterus. The nurse understands this indicates that the color of the patient's sclera is:
a. red.
b. blue.
c. green.
d. yellow.
D
Scleral icterus means the color of the sclera is yellow. The jaundice is due to coloring of the sclera with bilirubin that infiltrates all tissues of the body.
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