A nurse is caring for a client who has a wound infection. Which of the following actions should the nurse take when obtaining a wound-drainage specimen for culture?

A. Cleansing the wound with 0.9% sodium chloride saline irrigation helps remove debris and bacteria from the wound surface, ensuring that the specimen collected for culture reflects the infection present in the wound rather than contaminants. B. Including intact skin at the wound edges in the culture is not advisable, as it may introduce flora that do not represent the infection. The focus should be on obtaining a specimen from the wound itself. C. Swabbing an area of skin away from the wound to identify normal flora is not relevant when assessing an infection. The culture should target the actual infected area to determine the causative organisms. D. Irrigating the wound with an antiseptic prior to obtaining the specimen can alter the bacterial load present and lead to inaccurate culture results, as it may kill or wash away organisms that need to be identified.