A Nurse Working in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)is Caring

Multiple Choice

A nurse working in the intensive care unit (ICU) is caring for a client who is 10 days postoperative after open abdominal surgery. The client has a well-approximated midline surgical incision that has numerous staples, and the nurse notes a "healing ridge" is present. Based on this information, the incision is currently in which phase of the healing process?

A) Inflammatory phase
B) Proliferative phase
C) Maturation phase
D) Synthesis phase