III. Skin, Hair, and Nails
a. Health Assessment: Skin, Hair, Nails
b. Techniques for assessing the skin, hair, and nails
c. Normal and Abnormal Findings: Clinical Significance
d. Skin Lesions: descriptions and assessment
Select three from below Head, Skin, Neck, Hair, Nails, Face
Conduct a focused assessment on the three chosen.
Write a summary of the assessment and the skill utilized.
Answer the following 3 questions in the summary.
What skill was utilized during the focused assessment?
Describe how you felt during the assessment?
What can you do to improve your technique the next time?
1. The skin and its accessory structures such as hair and nails
are called.
2. What are the functions of the integumentary system?
3. What is the outermost, thin cellular membrane of the
skin?
4. What is the thick, fat-containing tissue layer?
5. What are at the root forming the color of one’s hair?
6. What functions does hair have?
7. Why do people have so many sweat glands?
8. Do sebaceous glands make hair feel oily?
9. What is...