BSNC 3000 - Tissue Integrity and Surgical Wounds questions with verified answers

BSNC 3000 - Tissue Integrity and Surgical Wounds
questions with verified answers
Tissue integrity Ans✔✔-The state of structurally intact and functioning
skin and mucous membranes


Skin functions Ans✔✔-- protection
- fluid balance
- thermoregulation
- sensation
- Vitamin D synthesis


Requirements of skin integrity Ans✔✔-- good nutrition and hydration
- adequate GE and perfusion mobility
- mobility
- good hygiene
- healthy immune function
- lack of trauma
- sensory perception


Variations of tissue integrity Ans✔✔-- trauma/injury
- loss of perfusion
- infection
- burns

, - immunological reactions
- lesions


Consequences of impaired tissue integrity Ans✔✔-- infection
- impaired thermoregulation
- F and E imbalance
- pain/PSR
- impact on safety
- impaired body image


Assessment of tissue integrity Ans✔✔-Skin assessment:
- intact
- CWMS
- skin turgor and texture
- inspect lesions


Healing Ans✔✔-- the replacement of injured tissue with newly formed
living tissue


Types of healing Ans✔✔-- resolution
- regeneration
- repair (scar tissue, fibrosis)