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Your patient in the partial hospitalization program (PHP) has come in for his appointment today.  You are running behind and front desk staff notifies the patient that there will be about a 10-minute delay.  The patient begins shouting at the front desk staff that this isn’t fair and kicks over the trash can in the lobby.  Then he picks up an object from the trash and proceeds to throw it toward the administrative staff and is threatening harm to the staff.   The chart indicates no allergies.  What is the most important intervention at this point?

Which of the following dopamine receptor blocking agents (DRBAs) is most likely to affect the QT interval?

A 14-year-old experiencing passive suicidal ideation without a plan or intent should first be:

A.R. tells you he doesn’t want to go to the hospital because “they never do anything for me.” He is still speaking loudly and the blood pressure cuff is having a hard time obtaining a measurement because he won’t stop gesticulating. What is your most appropriate action at this time?

The most important concept in the field of population genetics is

You see a recombination frequency of 0.3%. What does this indicate?

Evolution, viewed on a small scale, as it relates to changes in a single gene or allele frequency in a population over time, is called

Epigenetic inheritance

Survivin is an apoptosis inhibitor in humans. If the survivin gene is mutated so that it produces too much of the Survivin protein, which of the following would be the most likely effect on limb formation?

Which mechanism is NOT used by ncRNAs to bind to other molecules?