ATI Med Surg test Latest Verified Questions and all Correct Answers with Explanations, Care of the patient with an Integumentary Disorder 100% Correct Answers, Download to Score A

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ATI Med Surg test Latest Verified Questions and all Correct Answers with Explanations, Care of the patient with an Integumentary Disorder 100% Correct Answers, Download to Score A-What should the nurs... e do when administering a therapeutic bath to a patient who has severe pruritis? - Use Barrow's solution to help promote healing . A frail, older adult home heath patient who had chickenpox as a child has been exposed to varicella (chickenpox) several days ago. What should the nurse do? - Access frequently for herpes zoster. A patient has herpes zoster (shingles) and is being treated with acyclovir (Zovirax). What should the nurse do when administering this drug? - Use gloves. A child has been sent to the school nurse with pruritis and honey-colored crusts on the lower lip and chin. The nurse believes these lesions are most likely: - Impetigo A school nurse assesses a child who has an erythematous circular patch of vesicles on her scalp with alopecia and complaints of pain and pruritus. Why would the nurse use a Woods lamp? - To cause fluorescence of the infected hairs. A patient, age 46, reports to his physician's office with urticaria with elevated lesions that are white in the center with a pale red border on hands and arms [Show More]

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