Question

The nurse is caring for a client with an external fixator that requires pin care twice a day. the nurse observes that there is a new purulent drainage around one of the pins. what intervention should the nurse anticipate doing? obtaining a culture scrubbing the drainage from around the pin site applying iodine-based solution apply ointment to the pin site.

Answer 1

Obtaining a culture

because culture should be obtained if a purulent drainage is present.