It’s crucial to safeguard your skin while outdoors. Wear protective clothing, including shirts, sunglass- es and wide-brimmed hats
Step 5 Next, focus on the neck, chest and torso. Young women should lift breasts to view the undersides. Step 6 With your back to the full-length mirror, use the hand mirror to inspect the back of your neck, shoulders, upper back, and any part of the backs of your upper arms you could not view in step 4. Step 7 Still using both mirrors, scan your lower back, buttocks and the backs of legs. Step 8 Sit down; prop each leg in turn on the other stool or chair. Use the hand mirror to examine the genitals. Check the fronts and sides of both legs, thighs to shins, ankles, tops of feet, between the toes and under the toenails. Examine the soles of the feet and the heels. Adolescence is a period of perceived
invincibility, which makes it diffi cult for teens Ready, Set, Grow
to relate to the long-term consequences of the decisions they make. In order to promote skin cancer awareness for your teens effectively, you — along with your provider, school nurses and administrators — must teach the impor- tance of reducing excessive sun exposure and performing monthly self-exams, two essential ingredients for the prevention and early detec- tion of melanoma. For more information, talk to your pro- vider or go to:
www.skincancer.org.
Jan Odiaga, DNP, CPNP-PC, a practicing PNP for more than 16 years, is an Assistant Pro- fessor for Rush University College of Nursing in Chicago, IL. She is the Specialty Coordina- tor for the Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program and an item writer for the Pediatric Nursing Certifi cation Board.
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