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Administering a therapeutic bath to a patient who has severe pruritus

Dec 10, 2024

  1. What should the nurse do when administering a therapeutic bath to a patient who has severe pruritus?
    • Use Burrow’s solution to help promote healing.
  2. A frail, older adult home health patient who had chickenpox as a child has been exposed to varicella (chickenpox) several days ago. What should the nurse do?
    • Assess frequently for herpes zoster.
  3. A patient has herpes zoster (shingles) and is being treated with acyclovir (Zovirax). What should the nurse do when administering this drug?
    • Use gloves.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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. He says, “It itches like crazy.” Which type of lesion would the nurse include in her documentation?
    • Wheals.
  7. The home health nurse assessing skin lesions uses the PQRST mnemonic as a guide. What does the S in this guide indicate?
    • Severity of the symptoms.
  8. What would the nurse stress to the 17-year-old girl who has been prescribed Accutane for her acne?
    • Use dependable birth control to avoid pregnancy.
  9. A 30-year-old African American had surgery 6 months ago and the incision site is now raised, indurated, and shiny. This is most likely which type of tissue growth?
    • Keloid.
  10. A patient, age 37, sustained partial- and full-thickness burns to 26% of the body surface area. When would the greatest fluid loss resulting from the burns occur?
    • Within 12 hours after burn trauma.
  11. Most of the deaths from burn trauma in the emergent phase that require a referral to a burn center result from:
    • Hypovolemic shock and renal failure.
  12. The nurse takes into consideration that carbon monoxide intoxication secondary to smoke inhalation is often fatal because carbon monoxide:
    • Binds with hemoglobin in place of oxygen.
  13. A nurse arrives at an accident scene where the victim has just received an electrical burn. What is the nurse’s primary concern?
    • The likelihood of cardiac arrest.
  14. A patient, age 27, sustained thermal burns to 18% of her body surface area. After the first 72 hours, the nurse will have to observe for the most common cause of burn-related deaths, which is:
    • Infection.
  15. Two weeks after a severe burn of over 20% of the body, the patient vomits bright red blood. Which condition is most likely?
    • Curling Ulcer.

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