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Handwashing - Answer-The single most effective way to stop the spread of infection Medical Asepsis - Answer-Reducing the number of organisms in an environment (ex. cleaning the tub with disinfectant before giving a patient a bath) Sterilization - Answer-Breaks the chain of infection at its various links of reservoir and the portal exit (removes all organisms) Standard Precautions are? - Answer-The principle of infection control that considers every client's blood and body fluid infecti...

What is a comprehensive assessment and what is an example of when a comprehensive assessment should be done? A detailed patient history including a physical examination either in a primary care setting, admission to a hospital or long-term care facility and includes subjective and objective data ◦Encompasses: ◦Health problems ◦Disease prevention ◦Assessment for problems associated with risk factors ◦Assessment for age and gender specific problems Ex: First time visit to a new he...

1. Assess the FHR - Answer-A laboring patient reports to the nurse that "I think my water just broke!" The first action the nurse should take is: 1. Assess the FHR 2. Check the fluid with Nitrazine paper .3. Notify the health-care provider 4. Note the color of the fluid 3. It may tear a low implanted placenta - Answer-A patient arrives in the labor and delivery unit with painless vaginal bleeding. The nurse knows that a vaginal examination is contraindicated because: 1. It may caus...

What is a comprehensive assessment and what is an example of when a comprehensive assessment should be done? A detailed patient history including a physical examination either in a primary care setting, admission to a hospital or long-term care facility and includes subjective and objective data ◦Encompasses: ◦Health problems ◦Disease prevention ◦Assessment for problems associated with risk factors ◦Assessment for age and gender specific problems ◦Ex: First time visit to a new...

Which medium was the first to reach a national audience on a regular basis? - Answer-Magazines What media shifts in the 1950s and 1960s led magazines to become more specialized? - Answer-Television took away magazines' mass audience, as well as the advertisers that had previously used magazine ads to reach national audiences. General interest magazines gave away to specialized ones; aimed at specialized and segmented readers. Tend to have broader range in terms of geographical distribution t...

Goffman makes an effort to define the terms that are the basis of his analysis. All of the following are terms that are central to his dramaturgical analysis, except: - Answer-observation deck Goffman feels that the impressions that a person makes in a social setting and the inferences the audience draws when observing a person are ultimately unimportant aspects of social interaction. - Answer-False What is the most important part of a "front" in a convincing social performance? - Answer...

What are the 4 functions of mass media? - Answer-Content Medium Manifest Latent What is Content? - Answer-the media functions as a source of information ex: during elections: newspapers - give you information about election, candidates, etc. - key in helping one vote ex: influencing on how you dress by weather - key: specific information you get on weather What is Medium? - Answer-the main function of the media lies within the elements of the medium itself ex: going to the m...

What is the most familiar and far-reaching mass communication medium in the world? - Answer-radio What is the most widely available medium of mass communication? - Answer-radio What was the original use/function of radio? - Answer-person-to-person communication How was money originally made in the radio industry? - Answer--by the selling of radios -most money made by RCA When the original source of revenue in the radio industry proved insufficient, what two developments addressed t...

What is the instructor's email address? - ASSESSMENT SECTION: "All of the assignment guidelines have been met but various errors in form and content are present." You have just received what grade? - Answer-Grade C This class is out of how many points? - Answer-500 If ever you have a question or don't understand course material, you can... - Answer-Meet during student office hours Email the instructor Ask before, during, or after class The overall goal of this class i...

What are the 4 functions of mass media? - Answer-Content Medium Manifest Latent What is Content? - Answer-the media functions as a source of information ex: during elections: newspapers - give you information about election, candidates, etc. - key in helping one vote ex: influencing on how you dress by weather - key: specific information you get on weather What is Medium? - Answer-the main function of the media lies within the elements of the medium itself ex: going to the m...