ATI LPN
Integumentary System Quiz Questions Questions
Question 1 of 5
Which client problem is the nurse's priority concern for the client diagnosed with acute pancreatitis?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Acute pancreatitis causes severe pain, making pain relief the immediate priority.
Question 2 of 5
A client is admitted to an emergency department, and a diagnosis of myxedema coma is made. Which action should the nurse prepare to carry out initially?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: In myxedema coma, a life-threatening hypothyroid state, airway maintenance is the priority due to potential respiratory depression from severe hypothyroidism, preceding warming or hormone administration.
Question 3 of 5
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?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Urticaria is the term applied to the presence of wheals or hives in an allergic reaction commonly caused by drugs, food, insect bites, inhalants, emotional stress, or exposure to heat or cold. The lesions are elevated with a white center and a pale red border.
Question 4 of 5
What is the best instruction by the nurse regarding reducing the risk factors for melanoma?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Encourage the patient to protect skin from the sun by wearing protective clothing, including a hat with 4-in brim, applying sunscreen all over the body, and avoiding the midday sun from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sun lamps are just as damaging as the sun.
Question 5 of 5
The patient with shingles has been on an antiviral medication since the vesicles appeared. The goal of early treatment is to prevent which complication?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Early treatment may avoid postherpetic pain syndrome, but it cannot prevent additional vesicles, eye lesions, or transmission to another person.