NUR 205: Transition to Associate Degree Nursing (Winter 2021)

Week 5: Pre-Class Assignment

Assessment/Tissue Integrity
Pre-Class Assignment

*Pre-class assignments are expected to be completed and uploaded in CAMS prior to

class. *As always, be prepared to discuss your homework in class.

1. *Define tissue integrity in your own words.

2. Explain the nursing responsibility for maintaining the tissue integrity of patients?

3. Provide age related differences, assessments and interventions in the boxes below.
Age-related differences in skin integrity: Assessment and nursing interventions
needed in RN role:
Adults:

Older adults:

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3. *Identify and explain what types of clinical conditions impact tissue integrity and what
nursing interventions or measures will the RN take to prevent patients from acquiring
these conditions?

4. Identify age-related and individual risk factors for the development of skin disruptions
for the adult.

5. Define how nutritional factors play a role at putting patients at risk for skin
breakdown.

6. Give an example of primary and secondary prevention/care related to tissue integrity

management and how collaborative intervention is involved.

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Tissue Integrity
There are six major categories of impaired tissue integrity. List each category and an example
of each.
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Draw the concept map from Giddens, Page 268, Figure: 26-3. For each of the concepts,
add a cause and/or effect for each one.

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Nutrition/Malnutrition
In your own words, explain the interrelationship between nutritional status and health status.
(5 lines or more.)

Review the clinical exemplars related to nutrition in Giddens, pages 151-152. Using the
concept map in Potter & Perry, page 1117, Figure 45-5, apply critical thinking, and write a
priority assessment, diagnosis and intervention for each exemplar. Use your Potter &
Perry, Silvestri and NCSBN test plan as references.

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