Testbank for Fundamentals of nursing with
correct answers
What is Edema?
- correct answer- Swelling
Where do you pinch to assess turgor?
- correct answer- Back of forearm or sternum
How do you check for vascularity?
- correct answer- Push into skin and see if it blanches
Temperature is best assessed using the _________ portion of the hand
- correct answer- Dorsal
Where to look for pallor?
- correct answer- Nails, nail beds, and lips
Best place to check for cyanosis?
- correct answer- Lips
What is erythema?
- correct answer- Redness of the skin
,Types of Edema:
- correct answer- -dependent -pitting -due to
inflammation/injury
-obstruction Used to predict patients at risk for skin breakdown
- correct answer- Braden Scale Braden Scale score range
- correct answer- 6-23 Lower the score, greater risk Largest
organ in the body
- correct answer- Skin Lesions are measure in
- correct answer- centimeters Define macule
- correct answer- Flat, non-palpable, change in skin color, smaller
than 1cm Example of a macule
- correct answer- freckle, petechiae Define nodule
- correct answer- Elevated solid mass, deeper and firmer than
papule 1-2 cm Example of a nodule
, - correct answer- wart Define tumor
- correct answer- solid mass that extends deep through
subcutaneous tissue, larder than 1-2cm Example of tumor
- correct answer- Epithelioma Define wheal
- correct answer- irregularly shaped, elevated area or superficial
localized edema, varies in size Example of wheal
- correct answer- Hive, mosquito bite Define vesicles
- correct answer- circumscribed elevation of skin filled with serous
fluid, smaller than 1cm Example of vesicle
- correct answer- herpes simplex, chickenpox Most common skin
abnormality
- correct answer- Basal cell carcinoma What does the A stand for
in the skin ABCD assessment
- correct answer- Asymmetry What does the B stand for in the
skin ABCD assessment
correct answers
What is Edema?
- correct answer- Swelling
Where do you pinch to assess turgor?
- correct answer- Back of forearm or sternum
How do you check for vascularity?
- correct answer- Push into skin and see if it blanches
Temperature is best assessed using the _________ portion of the hand
- correct answer- Dorsal
Where to look for pallor?
- correct answer- Nails, nail beds, and lips
Best place to check for cyanosis?
- correct answer- Lips
What is erythema?
- correct answer- Redness of the skin
,Types of Edema:
- correct answer- -dependent -pitting -due to
inflammation/injury
-obstruction Used to predict patients at risk for skin breakdown
- correct answer- Braden Scale Braden Scale score range
- correct answer- 6-23 Lower the score, greater risk Largest
organ in the body
- correct answer- Skin Lesions are measure in
- correct answer- centimeters Define macule
- correct answer- Flat, non-palpable, change in skin color, smaller
than 1cm Example of a macule
- correct answer- freckle, petechiae Define nodule
- correct answer- Elevated solid mass, deeper and firmer than
papule 1-2 cm Example of a nodule
, - correct answer- wart Define tumor
- correct answer- solid mass that extends deep through
subcutaneous tissue, larder than 1-2cm Example of tumor
- correct answer- Epithelioma Define wheal
- correct answer- irregularly shaped, elevated area or superficial
localized edema, varies in size Example of wheal
- correct answer- Hive, mosquito bite Define vesicles
- correct answer- circumscribed elevation of skin filled with serous
fluid, smaller than 1cm Example of vesicle
- correct answer- herpes simplex, chickenpox Most common skin
abnormality
- correct answer- Basal cell carcinoma What does the A stand for
in the skin ABCD assessment
- correct answer- Asymmetry What does the B stand for in the
skin ABCD assessment
