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UC Health Skin Assessment: A Comprehensive Guide for Nurses & Clinicians

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This UC Health clinical guide provides a standardized protocol for comprehensive skin assessment. Learn to identify, document, and manage pressure injuries, wounds, and other dermatological conditions using evidence-based tools like the Braden Scale. Essential for nursing and medical staff to ensure patient skin integrity and improve care outcomes.

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UC HEALTH ASSESSMENT SKIN (KMH) EXAM
WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
VERIFIED ANSWERS (DETAILED ANSWERS)
ALREADY GRADED A+ 100% GUARANTEED TO
PASS CONCEPTS!!!.




Dysplastic Melanocytic - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Flat, Risk
factor for melanoma b/c melanoma can grow out of it


congenital giant melanocytic nevi - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Melanoma can arise out of this


Normal Physiologic Jaundice - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
1/2 of all newborns, Appears 2nd or 3rd day, Peaks at
day 5, Disappears within a week


Pathological Jaundice - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ -appears
before 24 hours and is related to severe hemolytic
process
-Rh or ABO
-defining difference from physiological is age of onset
of jaundice

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Miliaria Rubra - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Scattered vesicles
on an erythematous base, usually on the face and trunk,
result from obstruction of the sweat gland ducts; this
condition disappears spontaneously within weeks.


Erythema Toxicum - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ pink rash that
appears suddenly anywhere on the body of a term
newborn during the first 3 weeks. Disappears within a
week


Pustular melanosis - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Seen more
commonly in black infants, the rash presents at birth as
small vesiculopustules over a brown macular base; these
can last for several months.


Milia - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ small raised white spots on
nose, chin, and forehead


scleroderma - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ chronic progressive
disease of the skin and internal organs with hardening
and shrinking of connective tissue

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Bruising color 0-5 days out - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Red,
Blue Purple, Tender


Bruising color 5-10 days out - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
greenish yellow


Bruising color > 10 days out - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Brown


Time it takes for a bruise to heal - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
2-4 weeks


salmon patch (stork bite) - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Nervus
Simplex, 40 % all newborns, Flat irregular light pink
patches on nape of neck, almost all disappear by age 1


Port Wine Stain - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ dark purple
lesions on face/extremities, DO NOT FADE, may need
laser to rid


cherry angioma - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ a small, round,
bright red blood vessel tumor/bump on the skin, raised
red dot

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Echymosis - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ bruising


Pedunculated - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ growth with a stalk
and body that comes off of it


Fitzpatrick's Sign - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ positive
dimpling and retraction of the lesion beneath the skin
with lateral compression, seen w/ dermatofibromas, the
bump goes down in the skin


Confluent Rash - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Usually a
reaction to something


Derm Assessment Keys - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Morphology (Dimension, Elevation/Depression, Palpable
features, Color), Distribution (Generalized or Localized),
Configuration (Annular, Linear, Reticular, Gyrate),
Pattern of Distribution (cluster, confluent, dermatonal)


Nail profile angle - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ 160 degree
angle base

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Editorial: 2023 ISBN: 9780429513480 Edición: Desconocido

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