THE CRITICAL COMPONENTS OF NURSING
CARE 2ND AND 3RD EDITION BY KATHRYN
RUDD 2026 MOCK EXAM PRACTICE SET AND
SOLUTIONS A+
◉ Stage 1 Pressure Injury. Answer: Erythema of intact skin that does
not blanch
◉ Stage 2 Pressure Injury. Answer: Partial thickness loss with an
exposed dermis
◉ Stage 3 Pressure Injury. Answer: Full-thickness loss involving
damage to the epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous tissue but not
muscle or bone
◉ Stage 4 Pressure Injury. Answer: Full-thickness skin and tissue
loss, only it involves deep tissue necrosis of muscle, fascia, tendon,
joint capsule, and sometimes bone
◉ Unstageable. Answer: Involve full-thickness tissue loss but are
impossible to accurately stage because of the wound bed being
obscured by eschar or excessive slough
, ◉ Deep tissue. Answer: May be intact or non intact skin. Deep red,
maroon, or purple in color and does not blanch, blood-filled blister,
thin blister that overlies a dark wound bed, eschar under blisters
◉ Surgical incisions. Answer: Intentionally made with sharp
instruments, are linear with more sharply defined edges than most
wounds
◉ What should you do if you are given the location of a surgical
repair?. Answer: think about what signs and symptoms you would
expect to see in that area.
◉ Note what would be normal when it comes to a postsurgical
incision. Increased cellular permeability and histamine release.
Answer:
◉ Chronic illness. Answer: Illnesses affecting major body systems,
such as heart, lung, and kidney disease, as well as neurological
deficits affect optimal functioning of those systems. In turn, healing
of wounds is negatively affected by impairment of other body
systems