Wound Care Matters: Test Your Wound Care Knowledge

Is your wound care knowledge up to date? Find out how you stack up with this 10-question quiz!

The Wound Care Matters project is a joint effort by the Wound Care Education Institute® and Nurse.com. Its goal is to raise awareness about the devastating effects of wound care knowledge gaps in the U.S. healthcare system and how clinicians can empower themselves and their organizations to close these gaps with wound care education. Learn more at https://bit.ly/2Xdln7H.

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* 1. A pyoderma gangrenosum ulcer has what distinctive characteristic?

Hypergranulation tissue present

Violet-bluish halo surrounding the ulcer

Usually superficial with a pale pink wound bed

Minimal pain associated with this ulcer

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* 2. A homeless patient arrives at the local emergency department with maggots covering the lateral malleolus. What is the best way to remove the maggots?

Wipe off using a gauze soaked in normal saline

Wipe off using a gauze soaked in sterile water

Pour acetic acid onto the maggots to kill them

Using sterile water, irrigate using a PSI of 8-14

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* 3. A necrotic painful ulceration that starts as mottling and is often seen in end-stage renal disease patients is related to:

Sickle cell disease

Calciphylaxis

Kaposi sarcoma

Pemphigus

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* 4. What is NOT a common location for arterial ulcers?

Between the toes and on the tips of toes

Areas subjected to trauma or friction

Lateral malleolus

Heel

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* 5. Which ulcers tend to have even wound margins?

Neuropathic and venous

Venous and arterial

Mixed and venous

Arterial and neuropathic

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* 6. Which is NOT an appropriate treatment for a venous ulcer?

Whirlpool

Negative pressure wound therapy

Sustained graduated compression

Absorptive dressings under compression wraps

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* 7. What is the correct order of the usual progression of pain in a patient with lower extremity arterial disease?

Resting pain, intermittent claudication, positional pain

Intermittent claudication, positional pain, resting pain

Positional pain, resting pain, intermittent claudication

Intermittent claudication, resting pain, positional pain

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* 8. What is a true statement about gas gangrene?

It is caused by MRSA exclusively

It is a medical emergency

It is a common complication of venous ulcers

Only those with diabetes develop this complication

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* 9. What dressing product is the best at providing thermal insulation?

Specialty absorptive

Hydrocolloids

Foams

Transparent dressing

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* 10. What is a common problem associated with moisture-retentive dressings?

High levels of moisture vapor permeability

Odor when dressing is removed

Adherence to the wound bed

Decrease in angiogenesis