SEM 580 MODULE III UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
What is a comprehensive patient assessment?
Answer:
A global assessment that provides insight on the patient's medical status and
factors that could impair wound, ostomy, or continence progress. This helps
determine the etiology of the WOC issue..
Question:
What is a risk assessment?
Answer:
An assessment that assists in determining the patient's level of risk in developing
complications or skin injury and development of a plan of care to provide
prevention/protection for the skin.
Question:
What 4 factors are included in the comprehensive patient
assessment?
Answer:
history, focused physical exam, identify barriers, and setting goals
Question:
What does OLDCART stand for?
Answer:
Onset
Location
Duration
Characteristics
Aggravating factors
Relieving factors
Treatment
Question:
What are objective findings in a focused physical exam?
Answer:
What you SEE, HEAR, SMELL, FEEL, and MEASURE.
VS, age, gender, appearance, cognitive function, characteristics of WOC area,
diagnostic assessments (braden, fall, morse...), lab results
Question:
What 4 factors need to be included in goal setting?
Answer:
- patient centered
- realistic and evidence-based
, - short term
- long term
Question:
What is subjective data in a physical assessment?
Answer:
history of present problem, past medical history, review of systems, medication
review
Question:
Skin inspection vs assessment
Answer:
skin inspection is a visual observation from head to toe
skin assessment is inspection plus palpation
Question:
What is a flat, circumscribed skin discoloration <0.5 cm.
Ex) Freckle, flat mole, petechia
Answer:
Macule
Question:
What is a flat, nonpalpable, irregular-shaped macule >0.5
cm ex) Vitiligo, port-wine stain
Answer:
Patch
Question:
What is an elevated, firm, circumscribed palpable area of
skin <0.5 cm ex) Wart, elevated mole
Answer:
Papule
Question:
What is an elevated, firm circumscribed, palpable area
deeper in dermis than a papule >0.5 cm; tumor if >2cm
Answer:
Nodule
Question:
What is an elevated, firm, rough lesion with flat top
surface >0.5 cm ex) Psoriasis, seborrheic keratosis
Answer:
Plaque
Question:
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
What is a comprehensive patient assessment?
Answer:
A global assessment that provides insight on the patient's medical status and
factors that could impair wound, ostomy, or continence progress. This helps
determine the etiology of the WOC issue..
Question:
What is a risk assessment?
Answer:
An assessment that assists in determining the patient's level of risk in developing
complications or skin injury and development of a plan of care to provide
prevention/protection for the skin.
Question:
What 4 factors are included in the comprehensive patient
assessment?
Answer:
history, focused physical exam, identify barriers, and setting goals
Question:
What does OLDCART stand for?
Answer:
Onset
Location
Duration
Characteristics
Aggravating factors
Relieving factors
Treatment
Question:
What are objective findings in a focused physical exam?
Answer:
What you SEE, HEAR, SMELL, FEEL, and MEASURE.
VS, age, gender, appearance, cognitive function, characteristics of WOC area,
diagnostic assessments (braden, fall, morse...), lab results
Question:
What 4 factors need to be included in goal setting?
Answer:
- patient centered
- realistic and evidence-based
, - short term
- long term
Question:
What is subjective data in a physical assessment?
Answer:
history of present problem, past medical history, review of systems, medication
review
Question:
Skin inspection vs assessment
Answer:
skin inspection is a visual observation from head to toe
skin assessment is inspection plus palpation
Question:
What is a flat, circumscribed skin discoloration <0.5 cm.
Ex) Freckle, flat mole, petechia
Answer:
Macule
Question:
What is a flat, nonpalpable, irregular-shaped macule >0.5
cm ex) Vitiligo, port-wine stain
Answer:
Patch
Question:
What is an elevated, firm, circumscribed palpable area of
skin <0.5 cm ex) Wart, elevated mole
Answer:
Papule
Question:
What is an elevated, firm circumscribed, palpable area
deeper in dermis than a papule >0.5 cm; tumor if >2cm
Answer:
Nodule
Question:
What is an elevated, firm, rough lesion with flat top
surface >0.5 cm ex) Psoriasis, seborrheic keratosis
Answer:
Plaque
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