Skin Disorders
Highly contagious skin condition requires teaching family members about strict hygiene practices to prevent its spread
What is Impetigo?
Because electrical burns can cause internal tissue damage and serious cardiac arrhythmias, this is the first critical intervention the nurse should implement upon the patient’s arrival to the emergency department.
What is placing the patient on a heart monitor?
Fatigue, weight gain, cold intolerance, constipation, bradycardia, dry coarse skin, and brittle hair are hallmark signs of this endocrine disorder
What is hypothyroidism?
For a patient with hypercalcemia, this intervention is most appropriate because it promotes calcium deposition in the bones and prevents complications such as kidney stones.
What is increase fluid intake and promote ambulation?
A child presents with honey-colored crusted facial lesions consistent with impetigo. This first-line therapy is the primary treatment the nurse should anticipate.
What are topical antibiotics?
In burn injuries, this key factor determines the likelihood of a systemic inflammatory response, guides fluid resuscitation needs, and helps predict potential complications such as hypovolemic shock.
What is the total body surface area (TBSA) affected by the burn?
Marked by excessive thirst, excretion of large volumes of dilute urine, dehydration, hypotension, and potential hypernatremia due to insufficient antidiuretic hormone or renal resistance to it.
What is Diabetes Insipidus?
Characterized by water retention, hyponatremia, decrease urine output, confusion, and altered mental status these are hallmark signs of what endocrine disorder
What is SIADH (Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone Secretion)?
This is the most important initial intervention for a patient with a unilateral vesicular rash and burning pain, diagnosed as herpes zoster.
What is oral antiviral therapy?
Using the Rule of Nines, a patient with burns on the front chest and the front and back of the left arm from the elbow to the fingers would have this percentage of total body surface area burned.
What is 22.5%?
Characterized by hyperpigmentation of the skin, chronic fatigue, muscle weakness, weight loss, hypotension, and salt cravings, this endocrine disorder results from adrenal insufficiency.
What is Addison’s disease?
Symptoms such as weight loss despite increased appetite, heat intolerance, tachycardia, anxiety, tremors, and exophthalmos are classic indicators of this endocrine disorder
What is hyperthyroidism?
Patients at risk for this type of skin cancer should regularly check their moles and report any changes in asymmetry, irregular borders, multiple colors, size greater than 6 mm, or evolution over time.
What is Melanoma?
After a chemical fire, a patient presents with burns involving the epidermis, dermis, muscle, and bone with charred skin noted on inspection. This is the classification for the depth of the burn.
What is full-thickness?
A patient presents with moon face, truncal obesity, purple striae, petechiae, muscle atrophy, thin skin, and easy bruising.
What is Cushing’s disease?
For a patient with suspected Cushing’s syndrome, the nurse explains that this diagnostic test involves giving dexamethasone orally at night, then measuring plasma cortisol levels the following morning.
What is the dexamethasone suppression test?
Characterized by widespread mucocutaneous blistering and epidermal detachment often triggered by medications, this life-threatening condition requires the immediate implementation of this primary intervention before initiating supportive care measures.
What is removing the causative drug?
Patient presenting with facial and chest burns from a fire, this immediate assessment helps identify potential airway compromise.
What is auscultate for breath sounds?
When treating this endocrine disorder, interventions include restricting oral fluids to 800–1000 mL/day, cautiously administering hypertonic saline (3% NaCl), giving loop diuretics like furosemide, closely monitoring serum sodium, and implementing seizure precautions.
What is SIADH (Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone Secretion)?
fter a thyroidectomy for thyroid cancer, this laboratory finding may be an early sign of accidental parathyroid gland injury or removal.
What is hypocalcemia?