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A fourteen (14) year old girl comes to the hospital with her mother. The girl says that she was sexually assaulted by an adult male. After speaking to the forensic nurse, the girl says that she does not want the nurse to do an internal medical examination, but her mother disagrees and gives the nurse permission to do the examination. The nurse should perform the internal medical examination. 

List two ways a pathogen might cross an INTACT epithelial barrier. (I6) +1

The allele frequency of C is 0.45 and that of c is 0.55. If the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what is the frequency of heterozygotes? Express your answer in this format: 0.XXX 

The following program has a compiler error, runtime error, and semantic error. State which line(s) correspond to each type of error and why. 1. public class A { 2. private int[] arr = new int[3]; 3. private char 1letter = ‘A’; 4.      5. public A(int num) { 6.       arr[3] = num; 7. } 8. 9.      public int getFirstArrayElement() {10. return arr[1];11. }12. }

This type of force most commonly causes injury to the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) at the elbow.

A researcher observes that all pea plants with green pods have wrinkled seeds.  Based on this observation, she concludes that all pea plants with green pods will have wrinkled seeds. This is an example of…

A forensic nurse would use a DFSA kit during a sexual assault examination instead of a SAFE kit when there is an indication that the victim may have ingested a substance that would affect his or her ability to give consent.

The patient has a T-tube in place after a cholecystectomy.  What is the best nursing intervention for T-tube care?

A client comes to the walk-in clinic complaining of abdominal pain that started about two hours previously. The nurse notes in the assessment that there is tenderness in the right lower quadrant and checks for rebound. What is the characteristic of rebound tenderness?

Match each factor that governs evolution with its description.