A patient has entered the rehabilitative stage of burn treatment and is now receiving extensive health education in preparation for discharge. The patient's plan of care involves the use of elastic pressure garments
What teaching should the nurse provide to the patient about this intervention?
A) "It's important that you try to keep your pressure garments in place at all times."
B) "Scarring will be best controlled if you remove your pressure garments for 3 to 4 hours each day."
C) "You should plan to wear your pressure garments for 24 hours a day, 5 to 6 days a week."
D) "Your pressure garments will be most effective if you wear them in a cycle of 2 hours on, 2 hours off."
A
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