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The nurse answers a client's emergency call light, which is activated from the client's bathroom.The nurse discovers pinkish-gray organs protruding from the bottom of an abdominal dressing.Which action does the nurse take first?


A) Get the client to bed and place in a semi-Fowler position with knees bent.
B) Call the physician and report the client has an incisional evisceration.
C) Cover the eviscerated organs with sterile dressings soaked in sterile saline.
D) Make the client NPO in anticipation of surgery to close the open suture line.

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