A nurse collecting tissue for a Tzanck smear should (Select the appropriate interventions and place the steps in sequence. Separate letters by a comma and space as follows: A, B, C, D.)
A. Open the lesion with a hypodermic needle.
B. Place the specimen in a culture tube and take it to the laboratory.
C. Saturate the sterile swab with exudates.
D. Wash the lesion.
E. Place a pressure dressing on the lesion.
D, A, C, B
The nurse washes the lesion, punctures the lesion with a needle, saturates a sterile cotton swab, places the swab in a culture tube, and takes the collected tissue to the laboratory. A pressure dressing is not needed.
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