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  Define the requirements for the designation "foodborne-illness outbreak" - Correct Answers: - Two+ people have the same symptoms after eating the same food. - An investigation is conducted by state & local regulatory authorities - The outbreak is confirmed by a laboratory analysis 2. List the groups that are included in the high risk population for contracting a foodborne illness? - Correct Answers: - Elderly people - Preschool-age children - People w/ compromised immune systems (p...

  what should you do when taking a food order from customers who have concerns about food allergies - Correct Answers: Describe each menu item to the customer who ask, including any "secret" ingredients What temperature should the water be for manual dishwashing? - Correct Answers: Must be at least 110 F A food handler just finished storing a dry food delivery, which step was done correctly? - Correct Answers: Stored food away from the wall What should be done with food that has be...

  Which food has been associated with Salmonella Typhi? - Correct Answers: Beverages What symptom requires a food handler to be excluded from the operation? - Correct Answers: Jaundice What is an example of physical contamination? - Correct Answers: bones in fish What practice is useful for preventing Norovirus from causing foodborne illness? - Correct Answers: Excluding staff with vomiting from the operation What condition promotes the growth of bacteria? - Correct Answers: Food ...

  Define foodborne illness. - Correct Answers: a disease transmitted to people by food When is a foodborne illness considered an outbreak? - Correct Answers: when 2 or more people have the same symptoms after eating the same food What food saftey challenges do operations face? - Correct Answers: time pressure, potentially unsafe supplies, high risk populations, and staff related challenges What does a foodborne illness cost? - Correct Answers: guests and operations After a foodbor...

  A - Correct Answers: A buser poured some cleaner from its original container into a smaller working container. What else does the buser need to do? A) Label the working container with its contents. B) Read the safety data sheet (SDS) for the cleaner. C) Use a new wiping cloth when first using the working container. D) Note on the original container that some cleaner was put into a working container. A - Correct Answers: A food handler drops the end of a hose into a mop bucket and tur...

  What is the term used to describe a relative balance in body functions? - Correct Answers: Homeostasis If the term physiology refers to a branch of biology that deals with the function and activities of life or living matter, i.e. organs, tissue, or cells, what is pathophysiology? - Correct Answers: changes that result for disease Give an example of the pathophysiology of an organ, tissue or cell. - Correct Answers: organ: Ischemia tissue: Gangrene cell: dysplasia What are the t...

  The nurse is teaching a patient how a medication works to treat an illness. To do this, the nurse will rely on knowledge of: a. clinical pharmacology. b. drug efficacy. c. pharmacokinetics. d. pharmacotherapeutics. - Correct Answers: ANS: D Pharmacotherapeutics is the study of the use of drugs to diagnose, treat, and prevent conditions. Clinical pharmacology is concerned with all aspects of drug-human interactions. Drug efficacy measures the extent to which a given drug causes an i...

  In order to promote therapeutic drug effects, the Nurse Practitioner should always encourage patients to - Correct Answers: take their medication at the prescribed times. A female patient with a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus has been experiencing increasing neuropathic pain in recent months, a symptom that has not responded appreciably to conventional analgesics. The patient's care provider has begun treatment with gabapentin (Neurontin). How is the addition of this drug likely ...

  Many patients self-medicate with antacids. Which patients should be counseled to not takecalcium carbonate antacids without discussing it with their provider or a pharmacist first? 1.Patients with kidney stones 2.Pregnant patients 3.Patients with heartburn 4.Postmenopausal women - Correct Answers: 1 Patients taking antacids should be educated regarding these drugs, including letting them know that: 1.They may cause constipation or diarrhea 2.Many are high in sodium 3.They should s...

  Sarah, a 42-year-old female, requests a prescription for an anorexiant to treat her obesity. A trial ofphentermine is prescribed. Prescribing precautions include: 1.Understanding that obesity is a contraindication to prescribing phentermine 2.Anorexiants may cause tolerance and should only be prescribed for 6 months 3.Patients should be monitored for postural hypotension 4.Renal function should be monitored closely while on anorexiants - Correct Answers: 2 Before prescribing phenterm...