Exam 30: The Child With a Skin Condition

What risk is increased with children who have been diagnosed with infantile eczema?

What should the nurse suggest before a 17-year-old girl starts a protocol of isotretinoin (Accutane)for her acne?

Parents of a child show the nurse that their child has a flat strawberry nevus.What information can the nurse provide in educating the parents regarding strawberry nevus? (Select all that apply. )

A child has sustained a second-degree deep thermal burn to the hand.What is the best first action to take?

A child is brought to the emergency department with burns on the face and chest.What is the nurse's first priority?

Which factor(s)activate the herpes simplex virus type I? (Select all that apply. )

A group of football players is taking oral griseofulvin for tinea pedis.What should the school nurse caution them to avoid?

An adolescent patient at a pediatric clinic presents with a butterfly rash.What diagnosis does the nurse suspect?

The nurse observes a tarry stool from a 16-year-old burn victim who has been in the ICU for 2 weeks.Which complication does the nurse anticipate?

The home health nurse discovers a family infected with pediculosis.What information can the nurse provide to the mother to start eradication of the lice?

What should the nurse stress to the mother of a child with impetigo?

At a 2-month well-child visit,parents ask the nurse about the red area on the infant's neck.They tell the nurse that the mark appeared a few weeks after birth.What does the nurse recognize this skin lesion as?

Which allergy would contraindicate the use of silver sulfadiazine (Silvadene)as a topical agent for burns?

The nurse caring for a patient with severe frostbite observes a purple flush on the hands and feet.What is the most appropriate nursing action?

The nurse is caring for a 3-year-old child with severe burns.What is the nurse aware is the minimum adequate hourly urine output?

An adolescent is at the pediatrician's office because he has been experiencing intense itching,particularly in the axilla and between the fingers.The itching is worse during the night and he has not been sleeping well.With what is this symptom associated?