The nurse measures a client's wound diameter and notes that it has reduced in size. This wound is in which phase of wound healing?
1. inflammatory
2. remodeling
3. epithelialization
4. proliferative
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Rationale: Wound contraction occurs during the proliferative phase of wound healing. The inflammatory phase is the first phase of the wound healing process and is marked by redness, heat, pain, and swelling. The remodeling phase is the third phase of the wound healing process occurs after the wound has closed. Epithelialization is an event that occurs during the proliferative phase and involves the migration of epithelial cells across the wound's surface.
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