An Instructor Is Explaining Various Types of Infections

question 12

Multiple Choice

An instructor is explaining various types of infections. A student demonstrates understanding by saying:

• A) "An infection that is acquired while the patient is being cared for in a health-care setting is known as a health-care-associated infection."
• B) "If a person has an infection in just one area of the body, it is described as a primary infection."
• C) "If a second infection is caused by a different pathogen, it becomes a systemic infection."
• D) "If an infection spreads from the lungs to other organs, it becomes a secondary infection."

Identify the initial steps a hospital should take in response to receiving multiple casualties from a disaster.

Distinguish between different types of disaster victims and their medical needs.

Recognize when and why the National Guard becomes involved in disaster response.

Prioritize community actions immediately following a disaster.

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Definitions:

Forms

The structures, shapes, or external appearances of objects as perceived or conceptualized.

Contradictory Propositions

Propositions that cannot both be true at the same time, as they make opposite claims.

Forms

In philosophy, especially in Platonic thought, the ideal or perfect essence of something, which exists beyond the physical representation.

Contradictory

Qualities, statements, or propositions that are in direct opposition to each other, such that if one is true, the other must be false.