State and local "police powers" provide surveillance activities. Health departments usually have legal authority to investigate unusual
1. Pandemics
2. Clusters of illness
3. World trends of disease
4. Cases of the common cold and pneumonia
ANS: 2
Powers of local government include clusters of illness surveillance.
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The nurse is assisting with a patient who is having a test to measure intraocular pressure. Which equipment should the nurse expect to be used?
a. A tonometer b. Ultrasonography c. An ophthalmoscope d. A slit-lamp microscope ____