Skin

a nurse in a providers office is caring for a client who has a new diagnosis of herpes zoster. the nurse should anticipate a prescription for which of the following medications?

Acyclovir

A nurse in an emergency department is assessing a client who has extensive burns, including on her face. which of the following assessments should the nurse perform first?

Characteristics of the cough and sputum

a nurse is teaching a client who has extensive deep partial-and full-thickness burns and requires a topical antimicrobial medication. the goal of this medication therapy is to reduce which of the following outcomes?

Bacterial growth

a nurse is teaching a group of clients about skin cancer. the nurse should explain the basal cell carcinoma originates from which of the following tissues?

Epidermis

a nurse is evaluating the laboratory values of a client who is in the resuscitation phase following a major burn. which of the following laboratory findings should the nurse expect?

Sodium 132

A nurse is caring for a client who has a large wound healing by secondary intention. the nurse should inform the client that which of the following nutrients (in addition to protein) promotes wound healing?

Vitamin C

a nurse is providing discharge instructions to a client who is postoperative following surgical excision of basal cell carcinoma. which of the following findings should the nurse include as an indication of a moles potential malignancy?

ulceration

A nurse is planning care for a client who has deep partial-thickness and full-thickness thermal burns over 40% of his total body surface and is in the acute phase of burn injury. which of the following interventions should the nurse include in the plan?

initiate range of motion exercise

A community health nurse is teaching a group of clients about melanoma. which of the following characteristics of lesions associated with melanoma should the nurse include in the teaching?

irregular border

a nurse is caring for a client who has a prescription for silver sulfadiazine cream to be applied to her burn wounds. the nurse should evaluate the client for which of the following laboratory findings?

leukopenia

a nurse is caring for a client whose wounds are covered with a heterograft dressing. in response to the clients question about the dressing, the nurse explains that it is obtained from which of the following sources?

pig skin

a nurse is assessing the skin of a client who has frostbite. the client has small blisters that contain blood, and the skin of the affected area does not blanch. the nurse should classify this injury as which of the following?

third-degree frostbite