Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question

question 5

Multiple Choice

Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
A 76-year-old male visits his primary care physician with complaints of burning with urination and a frequent urge to void. As the RN, you aid the patient in collecting a urine specimen to be sent for analysis. While awaiting the final results of drug susceptibility testing in the lab, the patient is prescribed oral sulfasoxazole.
-In the lab,the urine specimen is spread on an agar plate with antibiotic discs placed to determine antimicrobial susceptibility.Following incubation,the clear area around each disc is measured.What term describes the observed area of antimicrobial action around each disc?

• A)zone of inhibition
• B)zone of susceptibility
• C)zone of resistance
• D)antibiogram

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Definitions:

Nanometers

Nanometers, denoted as nm, are a unit of measurement equal to one billionth of a meter, often used to measure wavelengths of light or the scale of atoms and molecules.

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Cones

Photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye that function best in bright light and enable color vision.

Dim Light

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