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Grade Level:: 6
Subject:: Skin Integrity
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Goal Summary:: Students will gain the overall basic knowledge needed to care for patients with skin integrity needs, using the nursing process to identify, describe, and prioritize information related to skin integrity needs, including describing medications related to the oxygenation needs of adult patients. They will learn prevention strategies related to the skin integrity needs of adult med-surg patients. They will also learn teaching strategies and communication techniques to use when caring for the adult med-surg patient with skin integrity needs.
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Essential Questions:: 1. What are the different types of wound drainage and what does each indicate? How will you remember to check for changes in skin integrity in your patients?
2. What are the economic consequences of pressure ulcers? What is the psychosocial impact of wounds?
3. Discuss nursing assessment questions that focus on level of sensation, movement, and continence status.
4. Discuss that compromised skin integrity allows pathogens to enter the body.
5. Review healing by primary and secondary intention
6. Explain the factors involved in preventing pressure ulcers; discuss positioning and support surfaces.
7. Review the management of pressure ulcers and wounds.
8. Discuss ways a dressing can be secured and how to clean the skin and drain site. Review suture care and drainage evacuation. Discuss the application of bandages and binders, and the uses, indications, and contraindications of heat and cold therapy. Compare dry and moist compresses.
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Content Goals:: 1. Explain the knowledge necessary for care that addresses the skin integrity needs of adult med-surg patients.
2. Describe assessment techniques to identify factors that affect skin integrity in adult med-surg patients.
3. Explain how to use the nursing process as a clinical decision-making strategy for providing care that addresses the skin integrity needs of adult med-surg patients.
4. Describe and prioritize caring nursing interventions that address the skin integrity needs of adult med-surg patients.
5. Describe prevention strategies that address the skin integrity needs of adult med-surg patients.
6. Practice communication techniques, including information technologies that address the skin integrity needs of an adult med-surg patient.
7. Identify teaching strategies for health instruction that address the skin integrity needs of adult med-surg patients.
8. Identify professional nursing behaviors in the clinical setting applicable to the care of adult med-surg patients with impaired skin integrity.
Meets Course Outcomes: 1 - 8
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