Multiple Choice
The nurse is in the process of irrigating the wound for a patient who has a large pressure ulcer on his buttock.How should the nurse proceed?
A) Use irrigation pressures of less than 4 psi.
B) Cleanse in a direction from most contaminated to least contaminated.
C) Irrigate so that the solution flows from least contaminated to most contaminated.
D) Irrigate with clean irrigation solution only.
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