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Vulnerable populations treated in the emergency department correct answers -homeless -Poor -those with mental health issues -substance-abuse concerns -older adults SBAR method of communication correct answers Situation Background Assessment Recommendation What is considered an emergent category for iTriage correct answers Immediate threat to life or limb What is considered an urgent category for triage correct answers Requires quick treatment but immediate threat to life does not...

MAOI Anti-Depressant correct answers Tranylcypromine Isocarboxazid Phenelzine Seleligine Hetero Anti-Depressant correct answers Bupropion HCl Maprotiline HCl Mirtazapine Reboxetine (Edromax) Trazodone HCl TCA Anti-Depressant correct answers Clomipramine HCl Imipramine HCl Trimipramine Desipramine HCl Protriptyline HCl Amitriptyline HCl Nortriptyline HCl Doxepin HCl Amoxapine ECT Anti-Depressant correct answers Methohexital Succinylcholine SSRI ...

Macule- correct answers Solely a color change •Flat and circumscribed •Less than 1 cm Examples: freckles, measles Papule correct answers Papule-Something you can feel •Caused by superficial thickening in the epidermis •Less than 1 cm Examples: mole, lichenplanus, Plaque correct answers Papules which merge together Wider than 1cm Examples: psoriasis, lichen planus Patches correct answers are groups of macules that are larger than 1cm Examples: mongolianspot, café au lai...

What is hydrocephalus? correct answers Hydrocephalus is the excessive accumulation of CSF that increases intracranial pressure. -Blockage in flow of CSF through ventricles of brain or when cannot be absorbed by arachnoid villi. What types of substances are able to directly cross the blood-brain barrier? correct answers Lipophilic substances are able to cross the blood-brain barrier directly and enter the brain. *Water crosses membrane by simple diffusion. Most nutrients cross blood brain ba...

hearing loss signs and symptoms correct answers talking loud, positioning head with better ear facing the person they are listening to, asks people to repeat things that they are saying, blank look, risk factors of causes of hearing loss correct answers family history, congenital malformations, low birth weight babies, recurrent ear infections, bacterial meningitis, chronic exposure to loud noises, perforation of the tympanic membrane, use of ototoxic substances and medications, ottotoxic ...

Major transmitter of the parasympathetic nervous system correct answers Acetylcholine Major transmitter of the sympathetic nervous system correct answers Norepinephrine Source and action of Acetylcholine correct answers S:Many areas of the brain; autonomic nervous system A:Usually excitatory; parasympathetic effects sometimes inhibitory (stimulation of vagal nerve) Source and action of serotonin correct answers source: brain stem, hypothalamus, dorsal horn of the spinal cord action: i...

Chapter 13 Principles and Practices of Rehabilitation correct answers 1. The nurse is providing care for an older adult man whose diagnosis of dementia has recently led to urinary incontinence. When planning this patients care, what intervention should the nurse avoid? A) Scheduled toileting B) Indwelling catheter C) External condom catheter D) Incontinence pads correct answers B 2. You are the nurse caring for a female patient who developed a pressure ulcer as a result of decrease...

vagina correct answers elastic muscular tube. Elasticity causes it to be able to give birth. cervix correct answers menstrual cycle: firm, position low, and closed approaching ovulation: soft, rises open because of high levels of estrogen. cervical mucous correct answers appears after period, prior to ovulation mucous thins and pH increases. After ovulation mucous is thicker because lower pH. uterus correct answers Main function is to accept a fertilized egg which becomes implanted in ...