Hesi Topics
Potential Community Health HESI Topic Areas
These are some additional areas you may want to considering being familiar with:
Ancathosis nigricans
A skin condition characterized by dark, thick, velvety skin in body folds and creases. Most often, acanthosis nigricans affects your armpits, groin and neck.
There's no specific treatment for acanthosis nigricans — but treating any underlying conditions, such as diabetes and obesity, may cause the changes in your skin changes to fade
Characteristics of acanthosis nigricans include:
Skin changes. Skin changes are the only signs of acanthosis nigricans. You'll notice dark, thick, velvety skin in body folds and creases — typically in your armpits, groin and neck. Sometimes the lips, palms or soles of the feet are affected as well.
Slow progression. The skin changes appear slowly, sometimes over months or years.
Possible itching. Rarely, the affected areas may itch.
Acanthosis nigricans is often associated with conditions that increase your insulin level, such as type 2 diabetes or being overweight. If your insulin level is too high, the extra insulin may trigger activity in your skin cells. This may cause the characteristic skin changes.
Question pertained to nurse checking for lice and noticing dark patch of skin on neck. Advisor role
Antepartum – risk factors
Anthrax incubation and exposure
Assess trends and patterns
Assessing income
Assessment - validation
Assignments – home care; Make sure students know how to prioritize home health clients (i.e. which ones to see/call back first.)
When given the choice between a patient with COPD who is short of breath, a terminally ill pt who refuses to eat or drink, or a pt with congestive heart failure who has gained 3 lbs, choose the last one.
Asthma triage
Battering-communication
If the question pertains to a nurse suspecting a female patient has been abused and the woman has her child in the room with her, the nurse should ask the child
These are some additional areas you may want to considering being familiar with:
Ancathosis nigricans
A skin condition characterized by dark, thick, velvety skin in body folds and creases. Most often, acanthosis nigricans affects your armpits, groin and neck.
There's no specific treatment for acanthosis nigricans — but treating any underlying conditions, such as diabetes and obesity, may cause the changes in your skin changes to fade
Characteristics of acanthosis nigricans include:
Skin changes. Skin changes are the only signs of acanthosis nigricans. You'll notice dark, thick, velvety skin in body folds and creases — typically in your armpits, groin and neck. Sometimes the lips, palms or soles of the feet are affected as well.
Slow progression. The skin changes appear slowly, sometimes over months or years.
Possible itching. Rarely, the affected areas may itch.
Acanthosis nigricans is often associated with conditions that increase your insulin level, such as type 2 diabetes or being overweight. If your insulin level is too high, the extra insulin may trigger activity in your skin cells. This may cause the characteristic skin changes.
Question pertained to nurse checking for lice and noticing dark patch of skin on neck. Advisor role
Antepartum – risk factors
Anthrax incubation and exposure
Assess trends and patterns
Assessing income
Assessment - validation
Assignments – home care; Make sure students know how to prioritize home health clients (i.e. which ones to see/call back first.)
When given the choice between a patient with COPD who is short of breath, a terminally ill pt who refuses to eat or drink, or a pt with congestive heart failure who has gained 3 lbs, choose the last one.
Asthma triage
Battering-communication
If the question pertains to a nurse suspecting a female patient has been abused and the woman has her child in the room with her, the nurse should ask the child