Burn Basics 🔥
If a client has burns covering both legs and the back, this percentage of the total body surface area is affected.
What is 54%?
The most effective way to prevent the spread of disease.
What is performing hand hygiene frequently and consistently?
A small, waxy nodule with pearly white borders.
What is basal cell carcinoma?
This is how often a great nurse repositions a bedbound client to prevent pressure injuries.
What is every 2 hours?
Contraindication to the flu vaccine.
What is an egg allergy?
This burn is characterized by a red wound with eschar present.
What is a deep partial-thickness burn?
This wound drainage is watery and red.
What is serosanguineous drainage?
A type of skin cancer that likes to metastasize, is often associated with changes in a preexisting mole, irregular borders, size, and color.
What is malignant melanoma?
Which amino acid dietary change helps prevent skin breakdown and promotes healing.
What is increasing protein intake?
HIV patient with CD4-T-cell below this level indicates severe immunocompromise.
What is below 180?
This is the priority assessment finding to report when a client has burns to the face, ears, and eyelids.
What is an compromised airway observation?
This is the first action if a client's surgical incision has eviscerated.
What is cover the area with a sterile saline-moistened dressing?
Antibiotic of choice for MRDO's such as Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus and Clostridium difficile infections.
What is vancomycin?
Keeping the skin clean, warm, and dry along with a protective barrier cream can help the client with this condition prevent skin breakdown.
What is incontinence?
This is a confirmation test when the ELISA is positive in screening for HIV.
What is the Western Blot?
This nutrient is essential for wound healing and promotes collagen synthesis.
What is Vitamin C?
To prevent hypovolemic shock with a deep laceration, this should your initial action.
What is apply direct pressure?
This painful skin condition causes lesions along a nerve pathway, lasting weeks after healing.
What is herpes zoster?
The characteristic lesions of this skin condition are thick, erythematous plaques covered by silvery scales.
What is psoriasis?
Cleansing a wound with this loosens necrotic tissue and exposes the wound bed to reduce the risk of obtaining a contaminated specimen.
What is sterile saline?
In burn management, this is why the first 8 hours of fluid resuscitation is crucial to survival.
What is preventing hypovolemic shock?
This lab value is important in determining a client's nutritional status and ability to heal a wound.
What is serum albumin?
This isolation precautions is required for a client with scabies.
What is contact precautions?
This skin condition presents as a honey-colored crusted lesion and is highly contagious.
What is impetigo?
This client may report exposure to a topical irritant this delayed hypersensitivity reaction.
What is contact dermatitis?