Which of the Following Is an Example of an Indirect

question 20

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of an indirect contact transmission?

• A) A healthcare worker's mucous membrane or nonintact skin comes into contact with blood or other blood-containing body fluids from a patient
• B) A scabies-infected patient's mites are transferred to the unprotected skin of a health care worker.
• C) Instruments that are not well cleaned in between patients can transmit infectious organisms
• D) Herpes virus is passed to a health care worker after the ungloved worker provides care to a patient's herpetic lesion

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Definitions:

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without needing to be learned.

Biologically Adaptive

Traits or behaviors that increase the survival or reproductive success of organisms within their environmental context.

Predicts

Refers to the act of forecasting future events or outcomes based on patterns or data analysis.

Classical Conditioning

An educational method where a connection is made between an external stimulus and an innate stimulus, resulting in a conditioned reaction.