NURS 6512: Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning

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NURS 6512: Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning

Week 4: Assessment of the Skin, Hair, and Nails

Apply assessment skills to diagnose skin conditions

Apply concepts, theories, and principles relating to health assessment techniques and diagnoses for the skin, hair, and nails

Analyze dermatologic procedures to include skin biopsy, punch biopsy, suture insertion and removal, nail removal, skin lesion removal.

Online media for Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination

In addition to this week’s media, it is highly recommended that you access and view the online resources included with the text, Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination. Focus on the videos and animations in Chapter 8 that relate to the assessment of the skin, hair, and nails.

Note: To access the online resources included with the text, you need to complete the FREE online registration that is located at https://evolve.elsevier.com/cs/product/9780323172660?role=student .

Assignment 1: Lab Assignment: Differential Diagnosis for Skin Conditions

Properly identifying the cause and type of a patient’s skin condition involves a process of elimination known as differential diagnosis. Using this process, a health professional can take a given set of physical abnormalities, vital signs, health assessment findings, and patient descriptions of symptoms, and incrementally narrow them down until one diagnosis is determined as the most likely cause.