A mosquito or a fly carries an organism that infects another living organism. What is this mode of transmission of infection?
a. Common vehicle
b. Direct excretion
c. Ingestion
d. Vector
D
Vector-borne diseases are carried from one host to another. Part of the life cycle of the pathogen occurs in the body of the fly, mosquito, or tick.
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The best response to the patient by the nurse would be A) "I will tell your physician that you are concerned about taking insulin during your pregnancy." B) "You will have to discontinue the insulin therapy during your pregnancy, but you will resume the medication after delivery." C) "You will need to continue taking your insulin because hyperglycemia is thought to contribute to low birth weight." D) "Insulin is usually the drug of choice for controlling blood glucose levels during pregnancy because it does not cross into the placenta."
The nurse is working with a patient receiving oxygen. What can the nurse delegate to nursing assistive personnel (NAP) during the administration of oxygen?
a. Adjusting the flow rate of the oxygen b. Reporting changes in patient's behavior c. Instructing the patient about oxygen at home d. Assisting during endotracheal intubation
Considering that Mr. Walters has consolidation pneumonia, what type of breath sounds would you expect to auscultate over the affected area?
A) Rales B) Tracheal C) Vesicular D) Bronchial
A patient who has breast cancer tells the nurse that a cousin who had breast cancer received trastuzamab (Herceptin) and wonders why this drug is not given to her. The nurse will explain that her cancer cells do not have
a. significant HER2 receptors. b. epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase. c. the BRCA1 suppressor gene. d. VGEF proteins.