AIDS 101 | Occupational Risk | True or False |
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What is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
AIDS stands for?
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What is standard precautions
In the hospital setting efforts to protect health care workers and their patients have taken the form of adopting?
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What is false
There is a cure for AIDS
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What is safe behaviors
not having sex, sex with one mutually uninfected partner, not shooting drugs are?
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What is physicians, dentists, nurses, nursing assistants, clinical laboratory technicians, therapists, housekeeping
what are groups of health care workers that have contracted the disease
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What is true
Moral directives have been ignored and certain healthcare providers have refused to treat HIV infected patients
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What is risky behavior
sharing drug needles or syringes, unprotected sex, sex with someone you don't know well or with who you know has had multiple partners is?
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What is a moral duty to treat.
If you van answer yes to all four questions you have what? 1. The patient is at significant risk of harm, loss or damage is the practitioner does not assist?
2. The practitioner's intervention or care is directly relevant to preventing harm? 3. The practi |
What is true
It is more likely the practitioner will be infected by the patient than the other way around
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What is human immunodeficiency virus
What does HIV stand for?
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What is moral option.
If the practitioner is in a position that all criteria could not be answered with yes than the decision to treat would become a?
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What is false
Does the good Samaritan ethics require that the rescuer take unacceptable risks in the process
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What is 1980
In what decade was HIV first reported?
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What is the risk is very low.
The risk of healthcare workers getting infected on the job?
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What is true
Discrimination in housing, insurance, and employment and even physical harm are very real outcomes of breaches of this patients confidentiality
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