Raised and irregular scar due to excess collagen formation.
What is Keloid Scar.
100
Total separation of layers of a wound in which internal viscera protrude through the incision.
What is evisceration?
100
Flat, colored, and non-palpable lesion. Example is a freckle.
What is Macule?
100
This is many seconds should you wash your hands under the faucet.
What is at least 15 seconds?
200
Full-thickness skin loss with extensive destruction, tissue necrosis, or damage to muscle, bone, or support structures.
What is Stage IV Pressure Ulcer!
200
White to tan flaking of dead skin cells.
What is Scales.
200
Wound drainage that is watery, with little cellular matter, and straw-colored.
What is Serous drainage?
200
A palpable, fluid-filled, and encapsulated leison.
What is a Cyst?
200
In an AIDS patient, these are the types of precautions (standard, contact, airborne, or droplet) that a nurse would use.
What is standard precautions.
300
Partial-thickness skin loss of epidermis, dermis, or both. Skin is no longer intact and may appear as an abrasion, blister, or shallow crater.
What is Stage II Pressure Ulcer!
300
Abrasion or loss of skin that does not extend beyond the superficial epidermis. Examples include scratches and dermatitis.
What is excoriation.
300
Abnormal passage connecting two body cavities or a cavity & the skin.
What is Fistula?
300
Elevated, superficial leison with localized edema. Example is hives.
What is a wheal?
300
When there is a possibility of blood or body fluid splattering, these are some personal protective equipment nurses should use.
What is gown, gloves, goggles, and mask.
400
Deeper level damage under boggy epidermal tissue found in Stage III and Stage IV pressure ulcers.
What is undermining?
400
An elevated, palpable leison that is filled with serous fluid.
What is Vesicle?
400
These specific substances are required by the body for proper wound healing.
What is Protein, calories, cholesterol, Vitamin C, zinc, copper, and most importantly -- oxygen
400
Elevated, rough textured leison with dried exudate.
What is a crust?
400
The type of mask that you should wear when entering a room with airborne precautions.
What is custom-fitted N95 respirator mask.
500
This is the stage of a pressure ulcer that is covered by eschar.
What is none!
500
A palpable leison that is elevated and raised above the skin.
What is Papule?
500
Thick, smelly drainage seen in infected wounds. Contains pus and often causing by infection with a pyogenic (pus-forming) bacteria. May be yellow or blue-green.
What is Purulent drainage?
500
Loss of superficial epidermis, such as from the rupture of a blister.
What is Erosion?
500
An example of this is a table, which is an inanimate, contaminated object that transmits infection through direct contact.