chapter 13 Flashcards
hygiene
term used to describe practices that keep bodies clean and healthy
grooming
practices like caring for fingernails/hair, shaving, applying makeup,
ADLs
hygiene and grooming activities, as well as dressing, eating, transferring, and eliminating
perineal care
care of genital and anal area
pressure points
areas of the body that bear much of the body weight, mainly at bony prominences
bony prominences
areas of the body where bone lies close to skin, elbows, shoulder blades, sacrum, hips, knees, ankles, heels, toes, back of head, ears, under breast/scrotum, bw folds of buttocks or abdomen, and skin bw legs
pressure injuries
injuries or wounds that result from skin deterioration and shearing
shearing
rubbing or friction resulting from skin moving one way and bone underneath it remaining fixed or moving in the opposite direction
stage 1 pressure injury
skin intact, may look red and redness is not relieved after removing pressure, may be swollen painful firm soft and warmer/cooler
stage 2 pressure injury
partial-thickness skin loss involving outer or inner layers of skin, injury is pink or red and moist, may look like a blister
stage 3 pressure injury
full thickness skin loss in which fat is visible. slough (yellow tan gray green or brown tissue that is moist) or eschar (dead tissue that is hard or soft in texture, black brown tan)
stage 4
full thickness skin loss extending through all layers of skin tissue muscle bone and other structure looks like deep crater, slough eschar may be visible
unstageable pressure injury
full thickness skin and tissue loss but extend of damage cannot be determined
deep tissue pressure injury
area is intact or nonintact and is deep red purple or maroon
foot drop
weakness of muscles in the feet and ankles that causes difficulty with ability to flex ankles and walk normally