Skin Integrity
The largest organ of the body that protects underlying structures.
➡️ What is the skin?
A wound created for therapeutic reasons such as surgery.
➡️ What is an intentional wound?
The study of drugs and how they affect the body.
➡️ What is pharmacology?
This drug name is selected by the company that sells it.
➡️ What is the trade name?
Water makes up about this percentage of the body.
➡️ What is 50–60%?
This layer includes glands, hair, nails, blood vessels, and nerves.
➡️ What is the dermis?
A wound that heals within days to weeks.
➡️ What is an acute wound?
This drug name identifies the active ingredient.
➡️ What is the generic name?
Drug classes may be based on:
➡️ What is effect on body systems, chemical composition, or clinical indication?
Fluid inside the cells.
➡️ What is intracellular fluid (ICF)?
Keeping this area clean and dry is essential for stoma care.
➡️ What is the peristomal area?
This type of wound has broken skin and an increased risk of infection.
➡️ What is an open wound?
A substance that modifies body functions when taken into the body.
➡️ What is a medication (drug)?
Name one factor that influences drug absorption.
➡️ What are route, lipid solubility, blood flow, pH, or dosage?
This is the major electrolyte in the extracellular fluid (ECF).
➡️ What is sodium?
Name one factor that affects skin integrity.
➡️ What is age, infection, malnutrition, decreased leukocytes, low hemoglobin, or chronic disease?
This tissue response fills the gap with scar tissue to restore integrity.
➡️ What is wound healing?
This form of medication is absorbed through the skin or mucous membranes.
➡️ What is topical medication?
The movement of medications from their site of entry into the bloodstream.
➡️ What is absorption?
Losses that can be measured (like urine) are called:
➡️ What is sensible fluid loss?
A break in the skin’s normal integrity is called:
➡️ What is a wound?
Two principles of wound healing include:
➡️ What are intact skin and hand hygiene (or wound free of foreign material)?
The clinical purpose for prescribing a drug is called:
➡️ What is the indication (pharmacotherapeutics)?
The phase where drugs circulate through tissues and fluids.
➡️ What is distribution?
The desirable daily fluid intake/output balance is:
➡️ What is 1500–3500 mL per day?