The nurse is providing discharge teaching to a client who had surgery to remove a growth on the tongue.The nurse understands that the surgery site is identified as a clean-contaminated wound.Which teaching will the nurse provide?

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Clean-contaminated wounds are those that are not infected at the time of surgery but are at an increased risk of becoming infected postoperatively due to their location. In this case, because the mouth is full of bacteria (normal flora), a surgical wound in the mouth is at a higher risk for infection, even though it might not have been contaminated during the surgery. Choices A, B, and C do not accurately describe a clean-contaminated wound or its expected outcomes.

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