Exam 50: Skin Disorders

The implementation that the nurse may perform for a patient with pruritus without a physician's order is to:

The nurse is alert for the expected fluid shift in the patient who was burned 24 hours earlier.(Place the events in the appropriate sequence.)

An appropriate implementation for a patient with severe psoriasis who has a nursing diagnosis of "Disturbed body image,related to skin lesions" would be:

The nurse is caring for an adult patient with extensive burns on the front of the trunk,including the genitalia,and the fronts of both legs.Using the rule of nines,the nurse would document that the burn size as:

In performing a physical assessment on an 80-year-old man,the nurse anticipates that the age-related skin changes will be: (Select all that apply.)

Information essential for the nurse to gather when interviewing a young woman who is taking the drug isotretinoin (Accutane)for acne is:

An excited mother of a teenage boy with severe acne furiously reports to the nurse,"I've told him a thousand times he should bathe more often! I've kept after him about all that junk food he eats.I jump on him when I see him squeezing his zits.I tried to get him to scrub his face three times a day!" The complaint the nurse recognizes as a true statement about the cause of acne is:

When an 80-year-old patient comes to the emergency department with extreme pain and itching in the hip and leg and has herpetic vesicular lesions on the left hip,the nurse inquires about the exposure to:

A confused patient who has been restrained because of combativeness and hyperactivity might,because of the restraints,display: