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Sarah, a nursing student, is taking an informatics course. The topic of the day’s class is professional issues concerning social media. How can Sarah use social media without violating any professional boundaries? (3 marks)  

Which of the following is the primary role of the nurse in telehealth? (1 mark) 

You take a sample from a growth-free portion of the zone of inhibition in the Kirby-Bauer test and inoculate it onto a plate of nonselective medium. What does it mean if growth occurs on the new plate? 

A teacher walking through her first-grade classroom pauses to pick up a used tissue that had ended up on the floor instead of in the waste basket. Unfortunately, after discarding the tissue, she doesn’t immediately wash her hands, and acquires a strain of rhinovirus. Several days later she begins to experience symptoms of a cold. Based upon this scenario, please select the mode of disease transmission demonstrated here. 

How is the name of the bacterium “proteus vulgaris” correctly written based on the binomial nomenclature? 

Describe what happens at each step in the Gram stain. 

Explain active, passive, natural, and artificial immunities.

List 4 ways a newborn can acquire normal microbiota. 

The following table shows the results of an antibiogram. Which of the antibiotics would NOT be recommended to treat the infection caused by S. aureus? Drug  Zone Size (mm) Required for Susceptibility(S) Zone Size (mm) Required for Resistance(R) Example Results for staphylococcus Aureus  Evaluation Bacitracin >13 18 18 13 18 17 29 12 15 12 19

Explain why it is safer to take antibiotics that target the cell wall of bacteria than antibiotics that target the cytoplasmic membrane.