ATI LPN
Integumentary System Test Questions Questions
Question 1 of 5
An unresponsive Caucasian patient has been brought to the emergency room by EMS. While assessing this patient, the nurse notes that the patients face is a cherry-red color. What should the nurse suspect?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Carbon monoxide poisoning causes a bright cherry red color in the face and upper torso in light-skinned persons.
Question 2 of 5
The nurse is planning care to meet the patient's pain management needs related to burn treatment. The patient is alert, oriented, and follows commands. The pain is worse during the day when various treatments are scheduled. Which statement to the physician best indicates the nurse's knowledge of pain management for this patient?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Patient-controlled analgesia allows the patient with burns to self-medicate for pain, thus providing independence with pain management strategies. Nonpharmacological pain strategies may provide helpful adjuncts to pain interventions. Scheduled pain medications and anxiolytic agents, although helpful, do not put the control of pain management with the patient.
Question 3 of 5
The nurse is caring for a patient in a wound clinic who is treated with plastic wrap dressings. Which finding indicates a complication related to prolonged application of the dressings?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Prolonged use of occlusive dressings can cause folliculitis, maceration, or skin atrophy, but folliculitis is a key infection-related complication.
Question 4 of 5
A school nurse is assessing a student who was kicked in the shin during a soccer game. The area of the injury has become swollen and discolored. The triage nurse recognizes that the patient has likely sustained what?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: A contusion is a soft-tissue injury that results in bleeding into soft tissues, creating a hematoma and ecchymosis. A sprain is an injury to ligaments caused by wrenching or twisting. A strain is a muscle pull from overuse, overstretching, or excessive stress. A dislocation is a condition in which the articular surfaces of the bones forming a joint are no longer in anatomic contact. Because the injury is not at the site of a joint, the patient has not experienced a sprain, strain, or dislocation.
Question 5 of 5
A nurse in a busy emergency department provides care for many patients who present with contusions, strains, or sprains. What treatment modality is common to all of these musculoskeletal injuries?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Treatment of contusions, strains, and sprains consists of resting and elevating the affected part, applying cold, and using a compression bandage. Massage and corticosteroids are not used to treat these injuries.