BURNS NURSING EXAMINATION TEST
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ What is a burn? Answer: Tissue injury caused by heat, chemicals,
electricity, radiation, or inhalation injury.
◉ What are the five major types of burns? Answer: Thermal,
chemical, electrical, radiation/UV, and inhalation burns.
◉ What type of burn always has an entrance and exit wound?
Answer: Electrical burns.
◉ What is the most common pediatric burn? Answer: Scald burns
from hot liquids or surfaces.
◉ What does TBSA stand for? Answer: Total Body Surface Area
burned.
◉ What are the two major methods used to estimate TBSA? Answer:
Rule of Nines and Lund & Browder Method.
◉ Which TBSA method is more accurate for children? Answer: Lund
& Browder Method.
, ◉ What does the patient's palm represent in the Palmer Method?
Answer: Approximately 1% TBSA.
◉ Which skin layer is involved in a first-degree burn? Answer:
Epidermis only.
◉ What are signs of a first-degree burn? Answer: Red, dry, painful,
blanches, no blisters.
◉ Example of a first-degree burn? Answer: Sunburn.
◉ Which layers are affected in a second-degree burn? Answer:
Epidermis and dermis.
◉ What is the hallmark sign of a second-degree burn? Answer: Blister
formation.
◉ Why are second-degree burns very painful? Answer: Nerve endings
remain intact.
◉ What are characteristics of third- and fourth-degree burns? Answer:
Leathery, dry, hard, white/black/tan, no blanching, little or no pain.
◉ Why may full-thickness burns be painless? Answer: Nerve fibers
are destroyed.
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ What is a burn? Answer: Tissue injury caused by heat, chemicals,
electricity, radiation, or inhalation injury.
◉ What are the five major types of burns? Answer: Thermal,
chemical, electrical, radiation/UV, and inhalation burns.
◉ What type of burn always has an entrance and exit wound?
Answer: Electrical burns.
◉ What is the most common pediatric burn? Answer: Scald burns
from hot liquids or surfaces.
◉ What does TBSA stand for? Answer: Total Body Surface Area
burned.
◉ What are the two major methods used to estimate TBSA? Answer:
Rule of Nines and Lund & Browder Method.
◉ Which TBSA method is more accurate for children? Answer: Lund
& Browder Method.
, ◉ What does the patient's palm represent in the Palmer Method?
Answer: Approximately 1% TBSA.
◉ Which skin layer is involved in a first-degree burn? Answer:
Epidermis only.
◉ What are signs of a first-degree burn? Answer: Red, dry, painful,
blanches, no blisters.
◉ Example of a first-degree burn? Answer: Sunburn.
◉ Which layers are affected in a second-degree burn? Answer:
Epidermis and dermis.
◉ What is the hallmark sign of a second-degree burn? Answer: Blister
formation.
◉ Why are second-degree burns very painful? Answer: Nerve endings
remain intact.
◉ What are characteristics of third- and fourth-degree burns? Answer:
Leathery, dry, hard, white/black/tan, no blanching, little or no pain.
◉ Why may full-thickness burns be painless? Answer: Nerve fibers
are destroyed.
