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The heart rate decreases, but the visceral and peripheral vessels do not dilate because efferent impulses cannot pass through the cord What are the onset of delirium and dementia? - ️️Delirium - acute and common during hospitalization Dementia - usually insidious and can be acute in situations such as trauma or stroke What conditions are associated with delirium? - ️️UTI, thyroid disorders, hypoxia, hypoglycemia, toxicity, fluid-electrolyte imbalance, renal insufficiency, trauma, m...

What does the Golgi apparatus do? - ️️takes proteins from the ER and processes/packages them into small membrane-bound vesicles called "secretory vesicles, and refines and directs traffic in the cell What are lysosomes and what do they do? - ️️maintain cellular health by removal of toxic cellular components, removal of useless organelles, termination of signal transduction, and signals cellular adaption What can epigenetic modification cause individuals with the same DNA (twins)...

At home testing (cheap and easy to understand results). - Answer-Counseling first and then careful decision making about testing and then counseling again. Which of the following is a recommendation for the FIRST HOUR OF CARE in a patient in sepsis (spiking a fever with >2 SIRS criteria)? Administration of vasopressors to maintain perfusion. Evaluation of adrenal responsiveness (Corticol Stimulation Testing). Administration of antibiotics as soon as cultures have been sent. Administrat...

autonomic hyperreflexia - Answer-affected at the t5-t6 level or above; characterized by paroxysmal HTN (up to 300 mmHg systolic), a pounding headache, blurred vision, sweating above the level of the lesion with flushing of the skin, nasal congestion, nausea, piloerection caused by pilomotor spasm, and bradycardia (30-40 beats/min) location of lesions in cases of autonomic hyperreflexia - Answer-individual most likely to be affected have lesions at the T5-T6 level or above what are common r...

Hypertrophy - ️️increase in cell size Physiologic hypertrophy would be increase in myocardial cell size r/t endurance training Pathologic hypertrophy would be secondary to disease such as HTN Hyperplasia - ️️increase in number of cells Compensatory hyperplasia would be the regeneration of liver cells when 70% of liver is removed Pathologic hyperplasia would be seen in the endometrium Metaplasia - ️️Replacement of different cells (think metamorphosis) Ex: normal columnar cilia...

acute kidney injury - Answer-this condition may be acute and rapidly progressive (within hours), and the process may be reversible. Kidney failure - Answer-this condition can be chronic, progressing to end-stage kidney failure over a period of months or years. Peripheral obesity - Answer-(also known as gluteal-femoral, feminine, or subcutaneous obesity) occurs when the distribution of body fat is extraperitoneal and distributed around the thighs and buttocks and through the muscle, resulti...

Palpation of the neck of a person diagnosed with Graves disease would detect a thyroid that is: a. Left of midline b. Normal in size c. Small with discrete nodules d. Diffusely enlarged - Answer-*D Which condition may result from pressure exerted by a pituitary tumor? a. Hypothyroidism b. Diabetes insipidus c. Hypercortisolism d. Insulin hypo-secretion - Answer-*A *If the tumor exerts sufficient pressure, then thyroid and adrenal hypofunction may occur because of lack of thyroid-stim...

What percentage of vaginal deliveries are subject to retained placenta? - AnswerApprox 3% vaginal deliveries, but can also after c-section What does NICE say about diagnosing retained placenta? - Answer-Diagnose prolonged 3rd stage of labour if not completed within 30 minutes of birth (active management) or 60 mins for physiological management Management for in theatre retained placenta - Answer-Anaesthesia effectiveness, prophylactic antibiotics preoperatively, ensure complete MROP by insp...

Which set of data should be displayed with bar graph? a. devices which need integration with the electronic health record software b. blood transfusions which were not charged or compared to the total number of transfusions given in a department. c. medications overridden from the medication dispensing machine by the department last month. d. training schedule for new graduate hires starting next quarter. - ️️blood transfusions which were not charged or compared to the total number of...

1. Patient use of technology has increased dramatically. While patients are more active in their care, a nurse notes they are often misinformed or obtain information that is inaccurate. Which recommendation should the nurse give to ensure education is accurate? - ️️List credible education resources for the patient's research. 1. What does the informatics nurse recommend to increase attendance to follow-up appointments? - ️️Automated text or email reminders 1. Pharmacy adds a fie...

Data cleansing/scrubbing - ️️A process that weeds out and fixes or discards inconsistent, incorrect, or incomplete information Data Governance - ️️refers to the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security of company data Data Integrity - ️️The correctness of data after processing, storage or transmission. Ability to store, retrieve, correct and complete data are available to authorized users Data Mining - ️️the application of statistical techn...

What is true about improving health literacy? - Answer-Improving health literacy leads to better patient outcomes. A nurse assists with implementing a new remote patient monitoring (RPM) system for collecting patient data, which improves patient outcomes. Which task is a high priority for an informatics clinician when implementing a new technology for patient data collection? - Answer-Identify and define the goal of the technology Patient use of technology has increased dramatically. While...

Positivism - Answer-Assumes that knowledge can only be discovered through sensory experience, observation and experiment Refuses to give any importance to human feelings, understandings and choices. Ideological explanations - Answer-based on systems of ideas held as irrefutable doctrine, based on passionate belief (found in prescientific and religious approaches and in radical conflict theories) Harmfulness - Answer-Harms associated with deviance are usually physical (bodily harm), functi...

Felson and Cohen's three elements of increased crime - Answer-motivated offenders, suitable targets, and the absence of capable guardians Control Balance desirability - Answer-Certain acts will have high control balance desirability, some will have low Low-self control theory assumptions - Answer-1. Crime is assumed to provide more immediate gratification than noncriminal behaviour 2. crime provides easy paths to gratification 3. crime is thrilling 4. crime provides few long-term benefi...

Cybernetic Model - ️️Society is a homeostatic, self-regulating system that (as long as it's healthy) maintains a balance (equilibrium) of its internal parts in the face of a changing environment. Mechanical Solidarity - ️️(Durkheim) social integration of members of a society who have common values and beliefs. Sameness and common values. Social Institutions - ️️Relatively stable patterns of interaction between actors whose roles in system are governed by internalized norms a...

When is modelling most likely to be imitated? - ️️Where the person likes or respects the model they're more likely to imitate that behaviour when they see them all receive reinforcement they're more likely to imitate Erratic Noncoercion - ️️- Lenient, lax, permissive parenting. May intervene intermittently. Little emotional social support. Use of remunerative rewards to control person's behaviour - Social psychological outcomes of Type 2 Control A. Low anger B. Low self-...

normative definition approach - ️️A violation of a norm, or a standard about what a person should or should not do under a given circumstance; Creates reactions from society when the norms are followed typology based on middle class norms - ️️privacy/intrusion; prudence/indiscretion; conventionality/bizarreness; responsibility/ irresponsibility; participation/ alienation; moderation/hedonism and asceticism; honesty/ deceitfulness; peacefulness/disruption; courtesy/uncouthness what...

When may a horn be used within city - Answer-When another vehicle suddenly brakes into the street from a narrow driveway and when a pedestrian suddenly steps out onto the roadway During day time where it is permitted to use highlights to sign the intention to pass - Answer-Outside city limits Inside city limits drivers may indicate their intention to pass by flashing headlights or sounding the horn - Answer-False Avoidable noises such as honking horns and racing engines are prohibited by ...

A slow vehicle is being followed by several other vehicles that cannot pass because of the traffic. On reaching a suitable place (such as a wide place in the roadway), the driver of the slow vehicle should pull to the right to allow the other vehicles to pass. (para 20b(11)) a. True. b. False. - Answer-a. True. The Traffic Point System applies to military personnel and civilian employees, but does not apply to Family members. (para 17) a. True. b. False. - Answer-b. False. License plat...

What did Betty ask Rosa and how did Rosa respond to this question? - Answer-Betty asked Rosa where she would like to work now. Rosa responded after a long silence calmly as if she had not already thought about this possibility. Rosa said that she doesn't know where else she would like to work because she has no ambitions and just wants to be here. How did Betty and Carmen react upon finding out that they will transfer Rosa? - Answer-Betty and Carmen also doesn't know why Rosa will be...