Perform a Visual Assessment of the Patients Skin Upon Admission

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so we're gonna go over the essentials of a integumentary system assessment and typically included in that it's hair skin and nails altogether it's a lot of inspection as you'll kind of see so wanna again talk to our patient introduce ourselves do a general safety check and explain to them then what we're going to be doing so I'm just going to be looking at your skin today Justin and you can just start with the the face inspection looking at color lesions any sort of rash patterns and you can at this point if you want to palpate or feel through their hair it depending on the situation you may want to wear gloves for that feeling for any sort of lumps or masses then we're gonna ask you will just under your gown if that's okay and we're going to look at the skin on your upper body so we'll keep you covered here so again we're looking at the color you can lightly palpate with the dorsum of your hand for your temperature warm and equal it's got normal hair distribution no obvious rashes or