Q: Why is it so important to assess the skin at admission? As a leader, you are in charge of financial stability, quality standards and patient care. After 11 months of hard work, you take vacation ...

Q: Should the skin assessment for dark skin tones be different from light skin tones? A: Post-acute and long-term care providers may have residents from various cultures, ethnicities and countries of ...

Dermatology Nursing. 2005;17(2):165-166. Dermatology Nursing Essentials: A Core Curriculum (2nd edition) was written to provide the reader with core knowledge about the specialty of dermatology ...

The growing use of optical techniques in point-of-care diagnostics has brought with it the need to identify and assess any inherent biases in the results. One source of these concerns is the differing ...

Congested skin is a way of describing skin that feels rough and bumpy. The term isn’t used to make a clinical assessment, so it can mean several different things and be used in different ways. While ...