The nurse is providing wound care to a patient's skin graft donor sites used for burn treatment. For which type of wound is this nurse providing care?
a. Skin tear
b. Full thickness
c. Split thickness
d. Partial thickness
ANS: D
A donor site is considered a partial-thickness wound. A. A skin tear is accidental. B. C. Full and split thicknesses describe different types of grafts, not donor sites.
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