Answer to Question 1
C
Exposure to gastric and pancreatic drainage has the highest risk for skin breakdown. A client whose skin is exposed to excessive moisture has an increased risk of skin breakdown due to changes in skin pH and maceration of skin.
Exposure to urine, bile, stool, acidic fluid, and purulent wound exudates carries a moderate risk for skin breakdown.
Exposure to urine, bile, stool, acidic fluid, and purulent wound exudates carries a moderate risk for skin breakdown.
Serosanguineous drainage is not caustic to the skin, and the risk of skin breakdown from expo-sure to this fluid is low.
Answer to Question 2
C
A living will is a document in which a person records refusal of life-prolonging measures that may be administered during his or her probable state of mental incompetence in the future.
A living will specifies what life-prolonging interventions the client does not want for himself or herself.
If the client's wife had been appointed by him as his health care agent, then she could make treatment decisions on his behalf.
Assisted suicide, such as a lethal injection, is not a function of a living will. A living will defines a client's wishes for withholding life-prolonging treatments.
Traditional animal phylogeny based on body plans.
Basal cell carcinoma, a frequent type of skin cancer that rarely metastasizes.
Sickle cell anemia. The clinical manifestations of sickle cell anemia result from pathologic changes
Major cell types in the human body.
Preparing the Patient’s Skin for Surgical Procedures
Skin structure. Three-dimensional view of the skin, subcutaneous tissue, glands, and hairs