A bite from which of these insects causes a necrotic ulcer that may take months to heal?
a. black widow spider c. deer tick
b. brown recluse spider d. tsetse fly
B
Brown recluse spider venom is necrotoxic, progressing to a necrotic ulcer within 1 to 2 weeks, and may take months to heal.
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1. Monitor that students who need glasses wear them. 2. Send letters home to parents reminding the students to wear the glasses. 3. Follow up on referrals made to determine outcomes for those students with vision or hearing problems. 4. Ask the teachers if they are aware of any other problems with students in the classroom.
What is the primary reason for using shared governance in an organization?
1. It ensures high-quality care. 2. It improves nurses' work environment, satisfaction, and retention. 3. Less time is spent in committee work. 4. It creates levels of middle management that increase the numbers of jobs for nurses within the organization
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a. Set limits on self-harmful behavior. b. Foster belief in and valuing of family unity. c. Confront abnormal eating patterns and self-mutilation. d. Encourage discussion of personal responsibilities associated with abuse.
As a nurse is inspecting the nails of a patient with chronic hypoxemia and notices enlargements of the ends of the fingers and angles of the nail base greater than a straight line (exceeding 180 degrees). How does the nurse document these findings?
a. An expected finding b. Koilonychia (spoon nail) c. Clubbing d. Leukonychia