Keloid formation - administer procaine penicillin by deep I.M - An ascending colostomy drains fluid feces

- Keloid formation is an abnormality in healing that’s characterized by overgrowth of scar tissue at the wound site.

- The nurse should administer procaine penicillin by deep I.M. injection in the upper outer portion of the buttocks in the adult or in the midlateral thigh in the child. The nurse shouldn’t massage the injection site.

- An ascending colostomy drains fluid feces. A descending colostomy drains solid fecal matter.