The ability of an agent to enter and multiply in the host is known as:
1. Antigenicity
2. Infectivity
3. Invasiveness
4. Virulence
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The ability of an agent to enter and multiply in the host is known as infectivity.
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The nurse is providing discharge instructions about medications and exercise to a client with congestive heart failure. Which action by the nurse ensures that the client is fully informed?
A) Make sure a relative attends the discharge teaching session. B) Repeat the discharge teaching sessions twice. C) Ask the physician to reinforce teaching prior to discharging the client. D) Print the discharge instructions and hand them to the client prior to discharge.
The first stage in the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change is:
a. action. b. contemplation. c. precontemplation. d. preparation.
A woman with heart disease has delivered and is now in the postpartum unit. When caring for this woman, the nurse recognizes that:
a. The woman's care needs to be no different from that of any other postpartum patient. b. Major circulatory readjustment in the postpartum period may cause heart failure even 4 or 5 days postpartum. c. The danger period will end after the first 24 hours postpartum. d. The danger period will end after the first 72 hours postpartum.
Unlike alkylating agents, antitumor antibiotics:
1. are not given orally. 2. have severe adverse effects. 3. have no dose-limiting toxicities. 4. are not mitotic inhibitors.