Answer to Question 1
A
A host is an organism, such as a human being, that can be affected by an agent. Susceptible hosts have no resistance to an agent. A person whose normal defense mechanisms are impaired is known as a compromised host. Factors such as age, occupation, and lifestyle affect the host's susceptibility to infection and to its severity.
Answer to Question 2
B
Long-term care has traditionally referred to a community-based nursing home licensed for skilled or intermediate care. There is still a great demand for this type of care, but there is also a need for other levels of health care. A long-term care facility may be licensed for either intermediate care or skilled nursing care. Clients are not acutely ill but have continuing health care needs and cannot function independently at home.
Bone marrow transplant. A bone marrow transplant is usually extracted from red bone marrow within a
Factors affecting determination of pulse oxygen saturation
Cross-sectional data showing that the amount of effort spent on personal health care increases with
Factors Affecting Body Temperature
Establishing a steady-state resting membrane potential.
The client is positioned for the examination