Nursing Tips: Integumentary

A child with scabies is likely to exhibit white lines in between fingers, toes, or skin folds. The whole family should be examined and treated!

For a patient who has suffered a BURN, be sure to assess for inhalation injury. Symptoms: singed eyebrows or nasal hair, and sooty sputum.

Key feature of Lyme Disease is a ring-shaped, "bullesye" lesion at the site of the tick bite.

Key symptom of Herpes Zoster: Painful, unilateral vesicular rash that runs along a dermatome