The client arrives in the emergency department with a penetrating eye injury from wood chips that occurred while cutting wood.
The nurse assesses the eye and notes a piece of wood protruding from the eye. What is the initial nursing action?
- a) Apply an eye patch.
- b) Perform visual acuity tests.***
- c) Irrigate the eye with sterile saline.
- d) Remove the piece of wood using a sterile eye clamp.
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Eye diseases