A patient who has just undergone a colon resection complains to a nurse that he felt something pop under his dressing while trying to get out of bed. The nurse removes the dressing and finds that dehiscence of the wound has occurred
What nursing action should be implemented first? a. Replace the dressing; dehiscence is nor-mal.
b. Call the physician.
c. Pull the wound edges together and replace the dressing.
d. Cover the wound with sterile dressings saturated with normal saline.
D
The first action of the nurse should be to cover the wound with saline-saturated dressings to pre-vent damage of the exposed organs from drying and then to call the physician.
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