[Verified Answer]: Cleaning a severely infected foot wound of an…

Cleaning a severely infected foot wound of an Indigenous patient with diabetes in your emergency department, a nurse learns that this patient had come to the hospital two weeks earlier but had not stayed for treatment. What might a nurse say at this point to promote cultural safety? Question 3 options: Provide teaching to help the patient learn that people with diabetes need to be particularly careful about foot wounds. “Why did you wait so long to come? This wound would have had a much better chance of healing if we’d seen it sooner.” Say nothing. It is good that the patient is here now and you don’t want to frighten him away. “What was it like the last time you came to the hospital?”