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cookcarl

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When focus charting, what does the nurse use as a basis for documentation?
 
  a. Problem list
  b. Nursing orders
  c. Nursing diagnoses
  d. Evaluation

Question 2

The nurse instructs a patient who has a drain in a surgical wound that the wound will heal by:
 
  a. primary intention.
  b. secondary intention.
  c. tertiary intention.
  d. deliberate intention.



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Answer to Question 1

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In focus charting, instead of using the problem list, modified nursing diagnoses are used as an index for nursing documentation.

Answer to Question 2

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When wounds are kept open by a drain, they heal by tertiary intention.





 

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