While assessing a client, a nurse finds that the skin on the wrist appears pearl-pink, wet, and blistered. On further assessment, the nurse finds that the client's dermis is exposed, extremely tender, and painful due to scalds
What does the nurse infer from these findings?
1. The client has superficial burns.
2. The client has full thickness burns.
3. The client has deep partial thickness burns.
4. The client has superficial partial thickness burns.
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