WGU C805 Study Guide Questions and
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MRSA ✔✔Definition: Red, swollen, may look like a boil with pus. Also skin rash or sore.
Diagnoses: Rapid blood test
Treatment: Antibiotics, draining of skin sore
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WGU C805 Study Guide Questions and
Answers Graded A
MRSA ✔✔Definition: Red, swollen, may look like a boil with pus. Also skin rash or sore.
Diagnoses: Rapid blood test
Treatment: Antibiotics, draining of skin sore
Malaria ✔✔Definition: Fever, chills, sweating and other flu like symptoms. Transmitted by
Mosquito. anemia, jaundice, and malaise due to the destruction of red blood cells
Diagnoses: presence of parasites in RBCs on blood smears
Treatment: Anti-malarial medications
Staph Infection ✔✔Definition: "Superbug" collection of pus, boil or abscess at site. Warm to
touch
Treatment: Antibiotics and draining of area
Active Immunity ✔✔Process does the body use to protect itself from disease - example is
Phagocytosis
Passive Immunity ✔✔patient has a raised, inflamed, red bruise on the left leg after a fall.
Laboratory results indicate the presence of increased lymphocytes and monocytes. -
IMMUNIZATIONS/VACCINATIONS are examples.
Benign Tumor ✔✔A biopsy reveals a lump is a tumor that has not infiltrated the surrounding
tissue; or when the cytology report states the growth is a localized, discrete mass.
Types: Adenoma & Osteoma
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma ✔✔Person with autoimmune disorder that turns to dyspnea, fever,
sweating, swollen lymph glands - biopsy reveals malignant lymphocytes
Malignant Tumor ✔✔carcinomas, adenocarcinomas - lung cancer, sarcomas - bone, muscle, fat,
cartilage
Metastasis - Spreading process ✔✔Through which system does a metastasized malignant tumor
spread through the body? - Lymph
Near Drowning ✔✔Definition: breathing fluid or not enough oxygenated blood
Treatment: CPR
Asphyxiation ✔✔Carbon dioxide accumulates in the bloodstream as a response to a patient's
condition.
Allergies ✔✔Nose hairs, sneezing, inflamed nasal passages, watery eyes
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