Other Homework Help

1 As a healthcare worker you are at risk of being exposed to and/or contracting many infectious diseases.

• What part of your chosen occupation puts you more at risk than other occupations?

• Discuss the most common blood-borne infection in the United States
  and how it is contracted. What is the immunization schedule to protect
  from this for the series of injections?

• How can you, as a healthcare provider, reduce your risk for
  hepatitis A and hepatitis C?  Describe how to protect yourself,
  including any preventative measures.

2..Select one disease/condition of the respiratory system (other than
mononucleosis) and discuss symptoms, diagnostic procedures, plus
treatment options. Give an example of someone you know who experienced
this disease or condition and his/her treatment.

The common cold, influenza, and other respiratory diseases are some
of the most common diseases that infect, sicken, or kill people across
the world. Discuss why the respiratory system is more often than naught a
center of human illness.

• Include at least two biological causes.
• Include at least two environmental causes.
• Include at least two behavioral causes.