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SEM 580 Module III With Complete Solutions
What is a comprehensive patient assessment? ANS✔✔ A global assessment that provides insight on the patient's
medical status and factors that could impair wound, ostomy, or continence progress. This helps determine the etiology
of the WOC issue..
What is a risk assessment? ANS✔✔ An assessment that assists in determining the patient's level of risk in developing
complications or skin injury and development of a plan of care to provide prevention/protection for the skin.
What 4 factors are included in the comprehensive patient assessment? ANS✔✔ history, focused physical exam, identify
barriers, and setting goals
What does OLDCART stand for? ANS✔✔ Onset
Location
Duration
Characteristics
Aggravating factors
Relieving factors
Treatment
What are objective findings in a focused physical exam? ANS✔✔ What you SEE, HEAR, SMELL, FEEL, and MEASURE.
VS, age, gender, appearance, cognitive function, characteristics of WOC area, diagnostic assessments (braden, fall,
morse...), lab results
What 4 factors need to be included in goal setting? ANS✔✔ - patient centered
- realistic and evidence-based
- short term
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- long term
What is subjective data in a physical assessment? ANS✔✔ history of present problem, past medical history, review of
systems, medication review
Skin inspection vs assessment ANS✔✔ skin inspection is a visual observation from head to toe
skin assessment is inspection plus palpation
What is a flat, circumscribed skin discoloration <0.5 cm. Ex) Freckle, flat mole, petechia ANS✔✔ Macule
What is a flat, nonpalpable, irregular-shaped macule >0.5 cm ex) Vitiligo, port-wine stain ANS✔✔ Patch
What is an elevated, firm, circumscribed palpable area of skin <0.5 cm ex) Wart, elevated mole ANS✔✔ Papule
What is an elevated, firm circumscribed, palpable area deeper in dermis than a papule >0.5 cm; tumor if >2cm ANS✔✔
Nodule
What is an elevated, firm, rough lesion with flat top surface >0.5 cm ex) Psoriasis, seborrheic keratosis ANS✔✔ Plaque
What is an elevated, circumscribed, serous fluid beneath the epidermis <0.5 cm ex) chicken pox, herpes zoster ANS✔✔
Vesicle
What is an elevated, superficial lesion like a vesicle but filled with purulent fluid? ex) acne, impetigo ANS✔✔ Pustule
What is an elevated, circumscribed, encapsulated lesion in the dermis or subcutaneous layer; filled with liquid or
semisolid material? ANS✔✔ Cyst
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