Janus Is a Keen Baseball Player at the High School

question 21

Multiple Choice

Janus is a keen baseball player at the high school where you are employed as a nurse. He comes to your office and shows you an injury to his knee which he got by sliding into home base, scoring a game-winning run. His knee has a red, raw patch where the skin has been scraped off, and the area around the wound is swollen. Janus tells you that he washed his knee with soap and water to remove any germs and then put a bandage on it.
-Janus asks you if there is something he can use to kill any bacteria in his wound without affecting any of his own body cells. You tell him that some antibiotics kill bacteria by targeting ________, a compound unique to bacteria.

• A) protein
• B) nuclear membrane
• C) flagella
• D) peptidoglycan
• E) chitin

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Definitions:

Educational

Pertaining to the process of teaching and learning, particularly the imparting and acquisition of knowledge.

Unitary-Transformative

A nursing theory or perspective that views health as a process of continuous change and development towards a higher level of consciousness.

Simultaneity

The occurrence or existence of two or more things at the same time or rate.

Totality

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