The nurse is preparing for a certification course on skin care and needs to be familiar with the various lesions that may be identified on assessment of the skin. Which of the following definitions are correct? (Select all that apply.)

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Vesicles are also known as a friction blister; nodules are solid, elevated, and hard or soft growth that is larger than 1 cm.; and petechiae are tiny punctate hemorrhages, 1 to 3 mm, round and discrete, dark red, purple, or brown in color. A hypertrophic scar is a keloid, not a papule. A papule is solid and elevated but measures less than 1 cm. An elevated, circumscribed lesion filled with turbid fluid (pus) is a pustule, no a bulla. A bulla is larger than 1 cm and contains clear fluid.

The Nurse Is Preparing for a Certification Course on Skin