2025\2027 Review Questions EXAM 2|
ATI Fundamentals Exam (Actual
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Elderly skin changes - ✔✔answers✔✔Loss of elasticity, folds, wrinkles, thin, dry skin
Xerosis - ✔✔answers✔✔Dry skin with cheesy substance (sebum and epithelial cells)
Pruritis - ✔✔answers✔✔Itching, mild to intense, occurs with age, dry skin, allergies
Alopecia - ✔✔answers✔✔Significant hair loss
Hirsutism - ✔✔answers✔✔excessive hair growth
Vitiligo - ✔✔answers✔✔Patchy absence of melanin pigment
Chloasma - ✔✔answers✔✔Hyperpigmentation on face (pregnancy or contraceptive
pills)
Impetigo - ✔✔answers✔✔Highly contagious skin infection causing sores and blisters
Dehydration skin signs - ✔✔answers✔✔Dry cracked skin, dry lips/mucosa, poor skin
turgor
Macule - ✔✔answers✔✔flat, colored spot on the skin (freckle) LESS THAN 1cm
Papule - ✔✔answers✔✔elevated skin lesion -
mole (elevated nevus), wart (verruca)
LARGER than 1cm elevated skin lesion
Patch - ✔✔answers✔✔Large flat skin discoloration (vitiligo)
, Bulla - ✔✔answers✔✔Blister, burns, contact dermatitis, >1cm
Nodule - ✔✔answers✔✔Solid, elevated, hard or soft, no fluid
Pustule - ✔✔answers✔✔Pus-filled cavity
Vesicle - ✔✔answers✔✔Blister with free fluid, i.e. herpes
Tumor - ✔✔answers✔✔Large mass, hard or soft, deep in dermis, benign/malignant
Jaundice assessment - ✔✔answers✔✔yellowing (in the eyes, assess sclera) hard/soft
palate
skin (pale hands/palms)
light/gray stools
dark golden urine
Petechiae - ✔✔answers✔✔Lesions from blood leak into skin
Cherry angiomas - ✔✔answers✔✔Benign growth of endothelial cells in neonates
up until 3 years old
Hemangiomas - ✔✔answers✔✔Vascular birthmark with extra blood vessels in skin
Pressure injuries stages - ✔✔answers✔✔Stage 1: red/ skin still intact
Stage 2: partial thickness (epidermis broken/dermis exposed)
Stage 3: full-thickness (subcutaneous tissue/fat exposed)
Stage 4: muscle/bone exposed
Urticaria - ✔✔answers✔✔Hives with stinging, tickling, or burning sensation
Fontanels - ✔✔answers✔✔Anterior (9mo-2yrs) and Posterior (1/2mo) soft spots on
newborns' heads
Salivary glands - ✔✔answers✔✔Parotid (cheeks), Submandibular (beneath mandible),
Sublingual (floor of mouth)
Facial and neck changes in elderly - ✔✔answers✔✔Prominent facial bones, sagging
due to decreased elasticity and fat
Acromegaly - ✔✔answers✔✔Overgrowth of head, face, nose, jaw, coarse facial features