The wound care nurse visits a patient in the long-term care unit.The nurse is monitoring a patient with a stage 3 pressure injury.The wound seems to be healing,and healthy tissue is observed.How would the nurse stage this pressure injury?

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When a pressure injury has been staged and is beginning to heal,the pressure injury keeps the same stage and is labelled with the words "healing stage." Once a pressure injury has been staged,the stage endures even as the pressure injury heals.This pressure injury was labelled a stage 3;it cannot return to a previous stage such as stage 1 or 2.This pressure injury is healing,so it is no longer labelled just stage 3.

The Wound Care Nurse Visits a Patient in the Long-Term