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NguyenJ

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on: Jul 22, 2018
A person was exposed to an illness and two weeks later developed the symptoms. Which stage of infection was the person in two weeks prior to developing the illness?
 
  a. incubation c. illness
  b. prodromal d. convalescence

Question 2

Florence Nightingale believed in structured and focused nursing education so much that the first Nightingale School of Nursing was opened at St. Thomas Hospital, London in
 
  a. 1700 c. 1800
  b. 1760 d. 1860


braelync

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Reply #1 on: Jul 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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The incubation period is the time between when an infectious agent enters a host and the onset of symptoms. The prodromal stage is the time interval from the onset of nonspecific symptoms until specific symptoms of the infectious process begin to manifest. The illness stage is when the patient is manifesting specific symptoms of an infectious process. The convalescent stage is the period of time when acute symptoms begin to disappear until the patient returns to the previous stage of health.

Answer to Question 2

D
Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 . The first school of nursing opened in 1860.


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