CME

Why do nurses use interactive, purposeful communication skills ? CORRECT ANSWERS: • Elicit and attend to cleints thoufhts, feelings, concerns, and needs • Express empathy and genuine concern for clients families issues • Obtain information and give feedbsck about clients status • Intervene and functional behavior and effective interpersonal relationships • evaluate clients progress toward desired goals and outcomes Barriers to effective communication CORRECT ANSWERS: • fi...

tx for peritonsilar abscess CORRECT ANSWERS: needle aspiration (then abx) painless vaginal bleeding during pregnancy CORRECT ANSWERS: placenta previa iron def anemia - serum iron and TIBC? CORRECT ANSWERS: decreased serum iron increased TIBC urgent tx for panic disorder with CP and terror CORRECT ANSWERS: benzodiazepines-lorazepam (ativan) dx test for cystic fibrosis CORRECT ANSWERS: sweat chloride test renal insufficiency what effect on potassium CORRECT ANSWERS: hyperkal...

The first laser use was CORRECT ANSWERS: Ruby What is laser light CORRECT ANSWERS: Monochromatic light Name the plastic container used to dispose of used needles/probes CORRECT ANSWERS: Isolyser The object that absorbs the light and laser it's called CORRECT ANSWERS: Chromophore Laser target or chromosome is CORRECT ANSWERS: Melanin What is the acronym for LASER CORRECT ANSWERS: A light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation What is the ruby wavelength CORREC...

The information that should be obtained from each patient before treatment includes: CORRECT ANSWERS: -Name -Adress -Phone number -Prior methods of hair removal -Natural hair color Two or more hairs sharing a follicle are referred as: CORRECT ANSWERS: Pili-multigemini The primary reason for using cooling devices while preforming laser treatment is: CORRECT ANSWERS: Allowing higher and more effective fluences to be used while sparing the epidermis Documentation of a patient is of ...

1. A 60 year old smoker presents to the clinic with complaint of cough for six months. The patient brings a container from home with sputum for analysis which you transfer to a sterile container and send to the lab. Lab reports > 50 squamous epithelial cells and no WBCs on the gross microscopic. The culture grows mixed gram positive and gram negative flora. Which of the following statements is true? a. This is an adequate sample with plenty of squamous cells. b. This is an adequate samp...

1. A 3 year old boy presents to the ER with persistent fever over more than 5 days with temp as high as 103 F. He was seen in clinic 2 days after onset of fever, no etiology was found, and this was thought to be viral. Today, however, he woke with bilateral "pink eye" and cracked bleeding lips with desquamation of the palms and soles of his feet. On PE you note a strawberry tongue, bilateral cervical adenopathy, bilateral injected conjunctiva without discharge and dry fissured lips. Which of...

What nerve are we concerned for when checking EOM of a patient with an orbital fracture? CORRECT ANSWERS: Infra-orbital Nerve What is the main symptom of glaucoma? CORRECT ANSWERS: Peripheral visual field loss Which kind of glaucoma is most common? CORRECT ANSWERS: Open angle An impediment through what structure leads to glaucoma? CORRECT ANSWERS: Canal of Schlemm What is the leading cause of blindness in the USA? CORRECT ANSWERS: Diabetic Retinopathy What is the most common ...

Rapid prototyping works with which of the following materials: CORRECT ANSWERS: a) gases + liquids only b) solids + powders only c) gases + liquids + solids + powders d) liquids + solids + powders e) liquids + powders only All of the following are considered additive manufacturing processes, EXCEPT: CORRECT ANSWERS: a) stereolithography b) fused deposition modeling c) UV object manufacturing d) selective laser sintering e) laminated object manufacturing A RP process in which a lo...

Explain why MgO can act as a network modifier in a silicate glass CORRECT ANSWERS: MgO has larger cations than silica, so it has higher CN and breaks the links between Si04 groups in a network should you put test bars in the test fixture with ground side up or down? Explain CORRECT ANSWERS: Face bars ground side up, facing single loading point. That side is in compression, so the flaws that were produced during grinding wont affect the failure which will initiate from bottom of bar (which i...

Which conditions classically leads to the development of diastolic heart failure? CORRECT ANSWERS: left ventricular hypertrophy - secondary to chronic, poorly-controlled hypertension manifest as ventricular wall hypertrophy decreases the lumen of the LV and reduces left ventricular wall compliance --> diastolic filling A patient from a house fire presents with thermal burns involving the entire left upper extremity (anteriorly and posteriorly) as well as circumferential burns of the left ...