Rawan is being interviewed for a job. Though it isn’t true,…
Rawan is being interviewed for a job. Though it isn’t true, the interviewer suspects that she is incompetent. Because the interviewer doesn’t expect much from Rawan, he sits far away from her during the interview, interrupts her frequently, and seems distracted when she speaks. As a result, she becomes nervous, starts to stutter, and loses her train of thought several times. The interviewer’s final impression is that Rawan is, as he suspected, incompetent. This impression is MOST likely the result of
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You are an adult respiratory therapist working in the emergency department. You have been told to come to shock room #1 to assess a patient in respiratory distress. The patient is showing signs and symptoms of shortness of breath, has difficulty speaking, and is coughing up frothy/pink secretions. Based on this description, what do you assume the patient has?
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You are a pediatric respiratory therapist working the floors and performing chest physical therapy on a patient. After the exercise, you ask the patient to cough any sputum that they can to clear their airways. After a few seconds, the patient is able to expectorate green, foul smelling sputum. The patient’s sputum indicates that the patient has what issue?
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