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NURS246 Hygiene Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: Good hygiene techniques promote what?, 🗹🗹: The normal structure and function
of tissues.
Q: Hygiene is influenced by what three things?, 🗹🗹: Personal ideas
Social ideas
Cultural ideas
Q: Disease can cause changes in ____________ organs., 🗹🗹: Sensory
Q: Hygiene includes care of what?, 🗹🗹: Skin
Feet, Hands, Nails
Oral Cavity
Hair
Eyes, Ears, Nose
Q: What are the functions of skin?, 🗹🗹: Protection
Sensation
Temperature regulation
Excretion and Secretion
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Q: How does the epidermis protect our skin? Is it permeable or impermeable to the
microbes that live on our skin?, 🗹🗹: Epidermis is relatively impermeable to
microbes that live on our skin.
It keeps the PH of our skin acidic to inhibit bacterial growth.
Q: Why should you smooth out linen, what will it prevent?, 🗹🗹: Shearing or
pressure ulcers
Q: How does the body regulate temperature?, 🗹🗹: Radiation
Evaporation
Conduction
Convection
Q: What can affect temperature regulation?, 🗹🗹: Wet linens
Q: What is the outer layer of the skin?, 🗹🗹: Epidermis
Q: What layer of the skin shields underlying tissue against water loss and injury?,
🗹🗹: Epidermis
Q: What layer of the skin prevents entry of diseases producing microorganisms?,
🗹🗹: Epidermis
Q: What layer is underlying of the epidermis and provides support?, 🗹🗹: Dermis
NURS246 Hygiene Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: Good hygiene techniques promote what?, 🗹🗹: The normal structure and function
of tissues.
Q: Hygiene is influenced by what three things?, 🗹🗹: Personal ideas
Social ideas
Cultural ideas
Q: Disease can cause changes in ____________ organs., 🗹🗹: Sensory
Q: Hygiene includes care of what?, 🗹🗹: Skin
Feet, Hands, Nails
Oral Cavity
Hair
Eyes, Ears, Nose
Q: What are the functions of skin?, 🗹🗹: Protection
Sensation
Temperature regulation
Excretion and Secretion
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Q: How does the epidermis protect our skin? Is it permeable or impermeable to the
microbes that live on our skin?, 🗹🗹: Epidermis is relatively impermeable to
microbes that live on our skin.
It keeps the PH of our skin acidic to inhibit bacterial growth.
Q: Why should you smooth out linen, what will it prevent?, 🗹🗹: Shearing or
pressure ulcers
Q: How does the body regulate temperature?, 🗹🗹: Radiation
Evaporation
Conduction
Convection
Q: What can affect temperature regulation?, 🗹🗹: Wet linens
Q: What is the outer layer of the skin?, 🗹🗹: Epidermis
Q: What layer of the skin shields underlying tissue against water loss and injury?,
🗹🗹: Epidermis
Q: What layer of the skin prevents entry of diseases producing microorganisms?,
🗹🗹: Epidermis
Q: What layer is underlying of the epidermis and provides support?, 🗹🗹: Dermis
