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During an admission assessment, the nurse observed the sacral area of the elderly client had full thickness skin loss with some subcutaneous tissue damaged present, no bone, tendon or muscle exposed and what appeared to be tunneling present at the 9:00 o'clock location. How would the nurse document the decubitus ulcer? Stage I. Stage II. Stage III. Stage IV.
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