A client is admitted to a healthcare facility with 30% full-thickness burns. What should be the goal when caring for the client with these burns during the resuscitative phase?
A) Achieve physiologic stability.
B) Focus on managing the burn wound.
C) Focus on physical repair of the tissue.
D) Psychological restoration of the individual.
A
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The nurse, when caring for a client with a burn injury during the resuscitative phase, should try to achieve physiologic stability. During the acute phase, the focus is on managing the burn wound injury. The goal that needs to be achieved during the rehabilitative phase of management of a case of burn injury is maximization of physical repair of tissue and psychological restoration of the individual.
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