Your younger brother Gerry is 15 and is basically a good kid. Your parents recently moved to a midsized town after living in a small town. Gerry has had a little trouble adjusting to the new town, new school, and new friends. He is somewhat shy. It is a week before he starts high school, and you are concerned because you don't want him to get involved with the wrong crowd. Based on what you learned from the text and the Web site, what advice would you give Gerry about selecting the right type of friends and resisting peer pressure? Write at least two paragraphs.

When practicing refusal skills, it is beneficial to participate in a potentially stressful or threatening situation. select the best answer from the choices provided. t f

If gloves become heavily soiled and additional patient care tasks must be performed on that patient, what should you do? a. no action is necessary as it's the same patient b. change gloves c. double glove d. wash the gloves

An 80-year-old woman comes to the urgent care clinic with dyspnoea on exertion. on physical examination, her blood pressure is 100/70, and her pulse is 75. she has no pulsus paradoxus. her jugular veins are distended, and she has distant heart sounds. in addition, she has extra third and fourth heart sounds. her liver is enlarged, and she has pedal oedema. she has occasional premature ventricular contractions on her electrocardiogram. a chest x-ray reveals clear lung fields with a dilated cardiac silhouette. her echocardiogram reveals ventricular walls with a "speckled pattern". which of the following is the most likely diagnosis? - alcoholic cardiomyopathy- amyloidosis- haemochromatosis- tuberculosis- viral myocarditis