Integumentary Nursing Diagnoses & Care Plans

Integumentary Nursing Diagnoses & Care Plans

Integumentary disorders such as impaired skin integrity, pressure injuries, burns, and wound infections are common on NCLEX and in clinical settings, especially for older adults and immobile patients.
This page organizes our integumentary nursing diagnoses and care plans so you can quickly find focused assessments, priority interventions, and rationales for common skin and wound conditions.

How to use this guide

• Start with the list of individual integumentary care plans below (skin breakdown, wounds, pressure injuries, burns, and high‑risk conditions).

• Open each care plan to review: brief condition overview, risk factors, signs and symptoms, skin and wound assessments, nursing interventions with rationales, and expected outcomes.

• Use these care plans as a study guide for NCLEX and as a quick reference when caring for patients with wounds, pressure injuries, or at risk for skin breakdown in clinical.

Suggested care-plan list structure

You can group your posts into Skin Breakdown/Pressure Injuries, Wounds & Infections, and Burns & Other Skin Conditions.

Skin breakdown and pressure injuries

• Impaired Skin Integrity – Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plan

• Risk for Impaired Skin Integrity – Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plan

• Pressure Ulcer / Pressure Injury – Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plan

• Impaired Tissue Integrity – Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plan

Wounds and infections

• Wound Infection – Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plan

• Surgical Wound / Post‑Op Wound – Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plan

• Diabetic Foot Ulcer – Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plan

• Venous Stasis Ulcer – Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plan

Burns and other skin conditions

• Burns – Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plan

• Contact Dermatitis / Allergic Skin Reaction – Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plan​

• Psoriasis / Eczema – Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plan​

• Skin Tear in Older Adult – Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plan