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“Pt’s gait distance improved from yesterday to today to a distance consistent with household ambulation” would be documented in the                                         section of a SOAP note.

Your patient is a 70 yo male who had a total hip arthroplasty (THA) 3 weeks ago.  He is now able to move in and out of the bed independently, transfer to a bedside chair, and ambulate 25’ with a rolling walker (RW).  He wants to return to driving, golfing and playing with his grandchildren.  Which of the following statements is true?

There are more chemotherapeutic drugs to treat viral infections than there are to treat any other microbial class.

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a gram-negative diplococcus. This means it has a thin layer of peptidoglycan, an outer membrane, and arranged as pairs of rod-shaped bacteria.

Staining increases the _______ which is the ability to distinguish the specimen from the background.

What type of alternative therapy is the nurse practicing when using essential oils to provide inhalation treatments?

What has been targeted by a control agent if a bacterial cell is no longer able to regulate what enters and exits the cell?

It is your first day as an intern at a dental clinic. Your job is to sterilize the tools after they are used to clean a patient’s teeth. The dental assistant that was training you had to leave early due to a family emergency and didn’t have a chance to tell you how to sterilize the tools. You have found an ultraviolet lamp, an autoclave, a refrigerator, and a membrane filtration system. Which piece of equipment will you use to sterilize the equipment? How does this physical control method kill microbes?

Which of the following classes of antibiotics does not target protein synthesis?

Which of the following is not sterilize materials?