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When you cut through a room full of voices to concentrate on a familiar voice, you are in the selecting stage of the perception process.

 The interpreting stage is the first stage in the listening process.

____________ is a process that involves an interchange of verbal and/or nonverbal messages within a continuous and dynamic sequence of events.

Which of the following is not an era in the history of communication?

Unlike verbal communication, nonverbal communication doesn’t have explicit rules of grammar that bring structure, order, and agreed upon patterns of usage.

It is our collective agreement that gives power to the rules that govern language.

Colonies.png Identify the corresponding colonies labeled 4 & 9 on this map and select the correct option below. 

A 30-year-old male presents to the ED with complaints of shortness of breath and chest pain that began after taking a  minor fall off of his bike. The symptoms have been persistent for the past 3 hours. Pain is increased with inspiration. He denies any constitutional symptoms of fever, cough, chills, or sick contacts. He is an avid biker and rides on a daily basis and did not consider this fall as significant. Additionally he does smoke ½ -pack of cigarettes per day.On physical exam he is tachypneic, with respiratory rate of 30, 94% saturation on room air. Ecchymosis present on left lateral ribs. Breath sounds are decreased in the left lung fields, and there is hyperresonance to percussion. The AG-ACNP obtains a chest x-ray (see the following x-ray): What is the diagnosis?

The patient with the above rhythm suddenly collapsed and is responding poorly.  The patient has a weak carotid pulse. A cardiac monitor, oxygen and an intravenous line have been initiated. The code cart with all drugs and transcutaneous pacer is immediately available. Which one of the following treatments would NOT be appropriate? 

In 1542, __________________, in his book The Destruction of the Indies, chronicled the awful fate of the Native Americans and protested the Spanish policies in the New World.“And once they begin to hear the tidings of the Faith, they are so insistent on knowing more and on taking the sacraments of the Church and on observing the divine cult that, truly, the missionaries who are here need to be endowed by God with great patience in order to cope with such eagerness…Yet into this sheepfold, into this land of meek outcasts there came some Spaniards who immediately behaved like ravening wild beasts, wolves, tigers, or lions that had been starved for many days…”