While packing a client’s abdominal wound with sterile, half-inch iodoform gauze, a nurse drops some of the gauze onto the client’s abdomen, 2 inches (5 cm) away from the wound. What is the priority action by the nurse?discard the gauze packing and repack the wound with new iodoform gauzepick up the gauze and continue packing the woundcontinue packing the wound and irrigate it with povidone-iodineapply povidone-iodine to that section of the gauze and continue packing the wound
[Solved]: While packing a client’s abdominal wound with…
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