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.A public service announcement is an example of - ANSWERS-nursing intervention .Absolute Risk - ANSWERS-person's chance they will develop a disease over a period of time .Adjusted rate - ANSWERS-takes into account specific subset and important variables .Analytic Epidemiology - ANSWERS-Looks at complex relationships Agent, host, environment Web of causation (looks at multiple factors) .Analytic vs. Descriptive Epidemiology - ANSWERS-The study of the amount and distribution of dise...

nursing pharmacology

24 year old patient come in with purulent arthritis of the knee, oligoarticular joint pain, and few vesicle/pustular lesions on her extremities. What is it? - ANSWERS-neisseria GONORRHEA can cause polyarthralgia, dermatitis, and tenosynovitis especially in young sexually active ppl septic arthritis common with this in young sexually active adults .ABG on advanced CKD? - ANSWERS-advanced is like creatinine above 3 ANION gap metabolic acidosis .Acute tubular necrosis with vacuo...

A patient has undergone surgery for a femoral artery bypass. The surgeon's orders include assessment of dorsalis pedis pulses. The nurse will use which of the following techniques to assess the pulses? (Select all that apply.) A. Place the fingers behind and below the medial malleolus. B. Have the patient slightly flex the knee with the foot resting on the bed. C. Have the patient relax the foot while lying supine. D. Palpate the groove lateral to the flexor tendon of the wrist. E. Palpat...

A blood calcium (Ca++) greater than 10.5mg/dL - ANSWERS-Hypercalcemia .A serum sodium level less than 135 mEq/L - ANSWERS-Hyponatremia .Aging decreases percent of total body weight? - ANSWERS-true .All of the following are considered to be the first line of defense except for: - ANSWERS-responding to a vaccine with the production of antibodies .An inverse logarithmic expression of hydrogen ion (H+) concentration - ANSWERS-pH scale .Any chemical that resists changes in the hydrogen...

.A-delta primary afferent fibers - ANSWER--small-diameter -lightly myelinated -transmit fast pain to spinal cord within 0.1 second -felt by pricking, sharp, or electric-quality sensation and usually is caused by mechanical or thermal stimuli .acanthosis nigricans - ANSWER-velvety darkening of skin in body folds and creases, especially the neck, groin, and axilla .accommodation - ANSWER-adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information; modification .actual ...

A acquired need for a drug that may produce psychological and/or physical symptoms of withdrawal when the drug is discontinued is called: A. tolerance B. idiosyncrasy C. dependence D. paradoxical - ANSWERS-C. dependence .A capsule containing drug particles that have various coatings which differ in amount of time required before the coating dissolve is called a(n): A. lozenge B. time-release capsule C. scored tablet D. elixir E. suspension - ANSWERS-B. time-release capsule .A...

.Additive Effect - ANSWERS-drug interactions in which the effect of a combination of 2 or more drugs with similar actions is equivalent to the sum of the individual effects of the same drugs given alone (1+1=2) .Adverse Drug Event - ANSWERS-any undesirable occurrence related to administering or failing to administer a prescribed medication. .Adverse Drug Reaction - ANSWERS-any unexpected, unintended, undesired, or excessive response to a medication given at therapeutic dosages (not an over...

. A grievance brought by a staff nurse against the unit manager requires mediation. At the first mediation session, the staff nurse repeatedly calls the unit manager's actions unfair, and the unit manager continues to reiterate the reasons for her actions. What would be the best course of action at this time? a. Send the two disputants away to reach their own resolution. b. Involve another staff nurse in the discussion so as to clarify issues. c. Ask each party to examine her own motives and...

DNA replication is ___________, which allows each of the two strands to serve as a _______ for the new strands. b. semiconservative, template - ANSWERS-DNA replication is semiconservative, meaning that each new duplex has one original (parent) strand and one new strand. Because the two parent strands are separated during replication and the base pairing is predictable, each parent strand can serve as a template for the new strand synthesis. .Which of the following enzymes does NOT assist t...