An appropriate technique for the nurse to use when culturing wound drainage is to:
A. Use older secretions for the specimen
B. Add exudate from on the skin to the wound specimen
C. Aspirate 5 to 10 ml of exudate from a deep cavity wound
D. Swab carefully and slowly in a back-and-forth motion across the wound
C
C. Take swab from special anaerobic culture tube, swab deeply into draining body cavity and rotate gently. Remove swab, and return to culture tube or insert tip of syringe into wound and aspirate 5 to 10 ml of exudates.
A and B. Cleanse area around wound edges with antiseptic swab to remove old exudates.
D. Take swab from special anaerobic culture tube, swab deeply into draining body cavity, and rotate gently.
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