The nurse determines that the client's wound may be infected.To perform an aerobic wound culture,the nurse should:

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The nurse uses different methods of specimen collection for aerobic or anaerobic organisms.
To collect an aerobic wound culture,the nurse uses a sterile swab from a culturette tube and sterile technique.The nurse never collects a wound culture sample from old or superficial drainage.Resident colonies of bacteria from the skin grow in superficial drainage and may not be the true causative organisms of a wound infection.The nurse should clean a wound first with normal saline to remove skin flora before obtaining the culture.

The Nurse Determines That the Client's Wound May Be Infected