Nursing Role: Reporting Wound Changes

• What is a reportable change related to wound care?

  Infection
• What is another reportable change in wound care?

  Delayed healing
• What indicates a wound is not healing properly?

  Not healing
• What symptom might indicate a reportable issue in wound care?

  More pain than expected
• Why is nausea/vomiting considered reportable in wound care?

  It indicates systemic changes
• What is a reportable change indicating acute bleeding?

  Hemorrhaging
• What are the reportable changes in wound care?

  • Infection
  • Delayed healing
  • Not healing
  • More pain than expected
  • Nausea/vomiting (systemic changes)
  • Acute bleeding
  • Hemorrhaging