While Teaching Community Groups About AIDS, What Should the Nurse

question 14

Multiple Choice

While teaching community groups about AIDS, what should the nurse indicate as the most common method of transmission of the HIV virus?

• A) Sexual contact with an HIV-infected partner
• B) Perinatal transmission
• C) Exposure to contaminated blood
• D) Nonsexual exposure to saliva and tears

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Definitions:

Western Cultures

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The unwritten rules that dictate the acceptable behavior within a society or group.

Communication Systems

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Shared beliefs or standards of behavior that are considered acceptable within a particular society or group.