The nurse, preparing to assess a patient who sustained a penetrating trauma, realizes that the injuries the patient will demonstrate will be according to which of the following?
1. the patient's fluid volume status before the injury
2. the patient's nutritional status before the injury
3. the patient's psychosocial status before the injury
4. the amount of energy to the body tissues from a moving object that interrupted the skin integrity
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Rationale: Penetrating trauma refers to injury sustained by the transmission of energy to body tissues from a moving object that interrupts skin integrity. Penetrating trauma produces actual tissue penetration and may also cause surrounding tissue deformation based on the energy transferred by the penetrating object. The degree of patient injuries will not be determined by the patient's fluid volume status, nutritional status, or psychosocial status before the injury.
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