NCLEX-RN

NCLEX-RN Review Study Guide

Chapter Five: The Adult Client 5.1 Integumentary Disorder 1. Which type of burn is usually painless? ____________________________ thickness or ____________________________ degree burn 2. What are the functions of skin? ____________________________ and ____________________________ 3. Pediculosis capitis is also known as ____________________________. 4. The best way to prevent the spread of scabies is to ____________________________ the entire household prophylactically. The parkland burn formula determines how much fluid is given for resuscitation in burn victims. The formula is 4ml/kg x percentage of body surface burned x patient’s weight in kilograms. 5. A patient who weighs 95 kilograms was burned on 45% of his body surface area. How much fluid would he get in 24 hours? ____________________________ 6. How much of this fluid would he get in the first eight hours post-burn injury? ____________________________ 7. If a patient has a stage one pressure ulcer, what is the best way to describe it? Redness that does not ____________________________. 8. If a pressure ulcer has damage, including bone and fascia, and has areas of necrosis, what stage is it? ____________________________ 9. Koplik’s spots are characteristic of which infectious disease? ____________________________ 10. What can we teach patients who have itchy skin to help prevent them from exacerbating the rash by scratching? Put ____________________________ on the itchy part of the skin. 11. Herpes zoster is responsible for which skin disorder? ____________________________ 12. A drug induced skin reaction caused by an immunological response that can cause large blister formation is known as ____________________________ Johnson Syndrome. 13. Singed eyebrows or facial hair and hoarseness can indicate that there may be a burn to what important area of the body? ____________________________ 14. What is themost important indicator of appropriate tissue perfusion? ____________________________ 15. True or false, topical steroids given for skin irritations can be absorbed into the systemic circulation. ____________________________

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