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Which care activities would reduce the risk of a susceptible host acquiring an infection in the healthcare setting? Select all that apply.

The nurse realizes which patient is at greatest risk for an unintended synergistic effect?

A client with a history of poor nutrition and chronic illness is admitted to the medical unit. The registered nurse caring for this client recalls that normal body flora:

Isolation techniques have the potential to break the chain of infection by interfering with what component of the chain of infection?

An elderly patient with confusion falls out of bed after a nursing assistant forgets to reconnect the bed alarm. What action should the nurse take?

A patient is to receive Penicillin 400,000 units intramuscularly (IM) every 24 hours. The medication is dispensed as Penicillin 500,000 units/mL. How many milliliters will the nurse administer?

A gerontologic nurse is basing the therapeutic programs at a long-term care facility on Miller’s Functional Consequences Theory. To actualize this theory of aging, the nurse should prioritize what task?

A 55 year came to the urgent care center with a leg wound oozing He reported that he had injured the from a fall while hiking in the woods and was worried since it was painful and had yellow drainage oozing from the center of it. A CBC showed that the white blood cell and neutrophils were elevated. Which of the following would be a correct interpretation of that finding?

Match the Patient to the Vulnerable Patient Population

Write a user-defined method that computes the following: calculateSum(): this method requires two integer arguments, start and stop, and returns an integer sum. The return value should be the sum of all numbers from start (inclusive) up to stop (inclusive). If stop is less than or equal to start, return start immediately. Otherwise, return the calculated sum. You may use either a while loop or a for loop. Within main function, you should get integers start and stop from user input. Then use calculateSum() method to get the sum value. Finally print out the sum value.