lailadarling

Hi everyone, This is my first post here, I made an account specifically to post this question. I just finished my third year of RN school in Ontario and I have a Summer job in LTC as a PSW. On my third orientation shift I was doing HS care for an elderly woman who had a deep coccyx wound with no dressing (I couldn't see it because the patient was rolled on her side towards me, but my orienter described it for me). I asked my orienter why there was no dressing but she didn't know, and I could have asked the nurse but didn't get around to it. I know in some cases wounds are left open to air if there is an infection. However leaving a coccyx wound open to air seems like terrible practice, especially if the resident is incontinent (which this one was). I'm not trying to be that young, naive nursing student who thinks she knows best but I'm just wondering if this is something that is done often, for my own knowledge. Thanks!