QUESTIONS AND WELL VERIFIED ANSWERS
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What techniques are used for a skin assessment? -ANS✔✔--Inspection and palpation
What do you inspect during a skin assessment? -ANS✔✔--Color, texture, moisture,
and integrity
What do you palpate for during a skin assessment? -ANS✔✔--Texture, moisture
temperature, mobility, and turgor
, List five things you need to do prior to beginning the assessment. -ANS✔✔--1. Review
the client chart
2. Gather needed supplies
3. Announces presence to client
4. Ensures client privacy
5. Performs hand hygiene
What tools are needed in preparation for a skin assessment? -ANS✔✔--Strong direct
lighting, gloves, penlight, and small centimeter ruler.
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List the functions of skin and nails. -ANS✔✔---Protect the inner body parts and
organs
-Body temperature regulation through shivering and sweating
-Sensory perception of temperature, touch, and pain
-Excrete waste and toxic substances
-Produce vitamin D
Elasticity in the older adult. -ANS✔✔---Loses elasticity; skin folds and sags.
-Decreased skin turgor.
Sweat and Sebaceous glands in the older adult. -ANS✔✔--Decrease in number and
function, leaving skin dry.