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LCritchfi

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on: Jul 16, 2018
You are assisting in the care of a hospice patient. While giving the patient a bath you note an area on the sacrum that appears to be dried stool. You gently wash it over and over but it does not come off. It is about the size of a quarter and you are sure it was not there yesterday. What are the implications and what do you do?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Hepatitis is:
 
  a. A stomach disorder
  b. Inflammation of the gallbladder
  c. Inflammation of the liver
  d. A bloodborne pathogen


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jrpg123456

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Reply #1 on: Jul 16, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Notify the nurse. This is likely a Kennedy terminal ulcer. It is an unavoidable pressure ulcer associated with patients who are near death.

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Reply 2 on: Jul 16, 2018
Excellent

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Wow, this really help

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