A 38 year old woman with severe periodontitis is in her 10th week of pregnancy when the dental assistant tries to discuss oral hygiene and future appointments for scaling. The patient becomes angry and says that she can live with bleeding gums and brown teeth from her former smoking habit. Then also says that she is not interested in learning about dental hygiene because her teeth will eventually fall out. How could the dental assistant convince the patient importance of hygiene.

You have just received a chance to work in a recently launched hospital in your area. What would you do if you noticed your doctor was about to administer the wrong dosage to a patient.

A client of two week gestation reports vaginal bleeding. As a nurse explain to her in layman’s language what you suspect to be happening in her reproductive system.

A patient is getting ready to be discharged from your unit. The patient was admitted with alcoholic cirrhosis and states he knows how important it is to stop drinking but he does not know where to begin. He states he would like to eventually stop smoking as well but will deal with that later. Discuss which support group you will refer this patient to and why you chose this particular group. Are there any other resources you feel would be helpful for this patient? Again state your rationale of why these resources would be helpful.

What are the prefixes and suffixes associated with the integumentary system? What are the word roots associated with the integumentary system? Explain the common diseases, diagnostic procedures, therapeutic and surgical procedures, and pharmacology terms with the integumentary system?