A patient has been admitted for severe psoriasis. The nurse expects to see what finding in the patient's fingernails?

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Sharply defined pitting and crumbling of the nails, each with distal detachment, characterize pitting nails and are associated with psoriasis. Paronychia is red, swollen, and tender inflammation of the nail folds. Beau lines are depressions across the nail that extends to the nail bed. Splinter hemorrhages are red-brown linear streaks from damage to nail bed capillaries.

A Patient Has Been Admitted for Severe Psoriasis