Exam 42: Care of Patents with Integumentary Disorders and Burns

The nurse describes several types of burn treatment.Match the burn treatment to the statement that best describes it. -Wound covered with ointment,then covered with layers of gauze saturated with topical medication

The nurse describes common complications that burn patients may experience.Match the burn complication with the description that best fits it. -Negative nitrogen balance

The nurse is educating a patient with psoriasis.Which information is most important for the nurse to include in the teaching plan?

While bathing a patient,the nurse discovers a grayish black,nodular growth that resembles a blackberry in the middle of the patient's back.What action should the nurse take?

The home health nurse gives instructions to a patient in avoiding recurrence of athlete's foot.Which information should the nurse include?

The nurse is educating patients about dietary selections that will promote wound healing.Which menu options should the nurse include?

The nurse describes several types of burn treatment.Match the burn treatment to the statement that best describes it. -Biologic dressing obtained from a cadaver

The nurse differentiates the various type of dermatitis.Match each option with the characteristics that best describe it.(Options may be used once, more than once, or not at all.) -Appearance of vesicular lesions following inflammatory response

The nurse is caring for a patient with a stage III pressure ulcer.Which assessment findings are consistent with this stage of ulcer?

The nurse describes common complications that burn patients may experience.Match the burn complication with the description that best fits it. -Loss of fluid from vascular space

The nurse is caring for a patient with a stage III pressure ulcer that is not healing.Which statement accurately describes the goal of electrical stimulation of the pressure ulcer?

The nurse is providing fluid resuscitation for a burn victim according to the Parkland formula.The nurse determines that the patient requires 8000 mL in a 24-hour time period.The burn occurred at noon,and the present time is 1400.How many milliliters of fluid should infuse by 2000?

The nurse differentiates the various type of dermatitis.Match each option with the characteristics that best describe it.(Options may be used once, more than once, or not at all.) -Erythema and pruritus with scaling associated with phlebitis

The nurse describes several types of burn treatment.Match the burn treatment to the statement that best describes it. -Wound covered with ointment,and additional environmental warmth provided

Acceptable urine output for an adult is at least how many milliliters per hour?

The nurse describes common complications that burn patients may experience.Match the burn complication with the description that best fits it. -Increased viscosity of blood slowing blood flow to small vessels

The nurse describes several types of burn treatment.Match the burn treatment to the statement that best describes it. -Biologic dressing obtained from a pig

While bathing a patient,the nurse assesses a red,unblanchable area on the coccyx.Which type of dressing should the nurse apply?

The home health nurse is educating the family of a child with head lice.Which instructions are most important for the nurse to include?

In caring for a stage IV pressure ulcer,the nurse assesses creamy yellow drainage with a necrotic odor.Which type of bacteria most likely causes this exudate?