NCLEX Practice Questions: Quiz 14

The nurse is cleansing a simple surgical wound. The client is two days postoperative, and the incision has well-approximated edges with no sign of infection. A Jackson-Pratt drain is adjacent to the incision site. Which of the following should the nurse do?
- 1. Cleanse the incision and drain sites while wearing standard clean gloves.
- 2. Cleanse in a back-and-forth motion across the incision line and in a circular motion around the drain site.
- 3. Cleanse the incision site and drain site together.
- 4. Cleanse the incision and drain sites using a sterile saline solution.

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