Nursing arts and science EXAM #1
Questions and Answers A+ Guide
What percent of infectious disease are transmitted by touch? - correct
answers✅✅80%
Contact precautions - correct answers✅✅MRSA, VRSA, VRE, HIV
Airborne precautions - correct answers✅✅TB, Varicella, Measles
Droplet precautions - correct answers✅✅Diptheria, mumps, rubella,
pertussis, flu
what is the Braden scale? - correct answers✅✅Assess the patient for
pressure injuries
What are some potential problems with someone who is immobile - correct
answers✅✅- Pressure Injuries
- Falls
- Confusion
- Atelectasis or PNA
- DVT and pulmonary emboli
Pressure Ulcers - correct answers✅✅Localized areas of injury to the skin,
and possibly and underlying tissue, usually over a boney prominence
Intrinsic factors that cause pressure ulcers - correct
answers✅✅-skin/tissue integrity
- oxygen delivery capabilities
- impaired sensation
, Nursing arts and science EXAM #1
Questions and Answers A+ Guide
Extrinsic factors that cause pressure ulcers - correct answers✅✅- friction
- shearing
- moisture
- compression
Stage 1 pressure ulcer - correct answers✅✅Localized area of intact skin
with nonblanchable redness, usually over a bony prominence
Stage 2 pressure ulcer - correct answers✅✅Involves partial - thickness
loss of dermis
- Open but shallow and red pink wound bed
- no slough
- serum filled blister may be present
Stage 3 pressure ulcer - correct answers✅✅A deep crater characterized
by full thickness skin loss with damage or necrosis of subcutaneous tissue
- May extend down to, but not through underlying facia
- undermining
- bone / tendon is not visible or directly palpable
Stage 4 pressure ulcer - correct answers✅✅Involves full-thickness skin
loss with extensive destruction, tissue necrosis or damage to muscle, bone,
or support structures
- exposed bone / tendon is visible or directly palpable
- slough or eschar may be present
- undermining and sinus tracts
Questions and Answers A+ Guide
What percent of infectious disease are transmitted by touch? - correct
answers✅✅80%
Contact precautions - correct answers✅✅MRSA, VRSA, VRE, HIV
Airborne precautions - correct answers✅✅TB, Varicella, Measles
Droplet precautions - correct answers✅✅Diptheria, mumps, rubella,
pertussis, flu
what is the Braden scale? - correct answers✅✅Assess the patient for
pressure injuries
What are some potential problems with someone who is immobile - correct
answers✅✅- Pressure Injuries
- Falls
- Confusion
- Atelectasis or PNA
- DVT and pulmonary emboli
Pressure Ulcers - correct answers✅✅Localized areas of injury to the skin,
and possibly and underlying tissue, usually over a boney prominence
Intrinsic factors that cause pressure ulcers - correct
answers✅✅-skin/tissue integrity
- oxygen delivery capabilities
- impaired sensation
, Nursing arts and science EXAM #1
Questions and Answers A+ Guide
Extrinsic factors that cause pressure ulcers - correct answers✅✅- friction
- shearing
- moisture
- compression
Stage 1 pressure ulcer - correct answers✅✅Localized area of intact skin
with nonblanchable redness, usually over a bony prominence
Stage 2 pressure ulcer - correct answers✅✅Involves partial - thickness
loss of dermis
- Open but shallow and red pink wound bed
- no slough
- serum filled blister may be present
Stage 3 pressure ulcer - correct answers✅✅A deep crater characterized
by full thickness skin loss with damage or necrosis of subcutaneous tissue
- May extend down to, but not through underlying facia
- undermining
- bone / tendon is not visible or directly palpable
Stage 4 pressure ulcer - correct answers✅✅Involves full-thickness skin
loss with extensive destruction, tissue necrosis or damage to muscle, bone,
or support structures
- exposed bone / tendon is visible or directly palpable
- slough or eschar may be present
- undermining and sinus tracts
