Your patient with chronic renal failure reports pruritus. Which instruction should you include in this patient’s teaching plan?
Correct Answer: Keep fingernails short and clean
Description: Calcium-phosphate deposits in the skin may cause pruritus.
Scratching leads to excoriation and breaks in the skin that increase the patient’s risk of infection.
Keeping fingernails short and clean helps reduce the risk of infection.
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