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28.  This is a gram stain of a culture that your instructor gave you.  Describe what you are looking at.  Is this a pure or mixed culture?  If mixed what is the first thing you should do to begin to identify the organisms? What is the total magnification of the image on this slide?          

5.  You requested the following media/reagents for your unknown.  What are you testing for with each media/reagent. Be specific.  A.  Hydrogen peroxide.  B. Bacitracin.  C. Rabbit plasma.  D. Iodine.  E.  Novobiocin.  F.  Ferric chloride

A nurse is caring for a client who has skeletal traction for treatment of a femur fracture. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?

You are caring for a patient at home who must take magnesium hydroxide/aluminum hydroxide (Maalox) 30 mL PO. How will you instruct the patient to measure the dose using ordinary household measuring devices?

A nurse is caring for a client who is currently taking Perphenazine.  Which of the following finding should the nurse identify as an extrapyramidal symptom (EPS)?  Select all that apply.

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7.  What is the difference between Minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) and Minimal bactericidal concentration (MBC). NOTE: two sentences to the point are enough. 

15.  Nitrate reduction test can be used to differentiate between Pseudomonads and the Enterobacteriaceae.  You innoculated your Nitrate broth with your unknown; after incubation you added 5 drops of reagent A and 5 drops of reagent B.  You observed a Red color within 2 minutes.  Is this a + or a – reaction?

19.  Starch exists in 2 forms, name them.

20.  Name 2 enzymes responsible for the breakdown of Starch to D-glucose.