The nurse and a new graduate nurse are caring for a patient with extensive burns.They are discussing skin grafts.Which statement indicates the new graduate understood the information?

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An autograft is a skin graft harvested from a healthy,uninjured donor site on the burn patient and then placed over the patient's burn wound to provide permanent coverage of the wound.Autografts must be done in the operating room and are the least expensive.Homografts can transmit disease and be rejected.

The Nurse and a New Graduate Nurse Are Caring for a Patient