Facts About Skin
The skin has three main layers: the ______, _____, and ______.
What are the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis?
A neurological disorder that causes excessive daytime sleepiness and sudden sleep attacks.
What is narcolepsy?
Lack of this essential function can lead to impaired memory, weakened immunity, and decreased focus.
What is sleep?
Once you start taking a medication, you should never do this without first talking to your doctor.
What is stop taking the medication.
Utah is home to this lake, the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Great Salt Lake?
Produced in the epidermis, this pigment protects against UV radiation and determines skin color. More of this means darker skin.
What is melanin?
The consumption of adequate amounts of water to maintain proper body function.
What is hydration?
This type of sleep that shares its name with a 1980's rock band is when most dreaming occurs and is essential for learning and memory.
What is REM sleep?
Name two of the five factors that can cause medications can work differently for different people. Understanding these factors can help in tailoring treatment plans to individual needs, ensuring better outcomes for patients.
Due to Utah’s desert-like climate and high elevation, its snow is usually powdery and dry. Hence the states claim to have this:
What is the “greatest snow on Earth”?
Exposure to sunlight helps the skin produce this, which is essential for bone health and immune function.
What is Vitamin D?
Implementation of these have eradicated or controlled diseases like polio, measles, and rubella.
What are vaccination programs?
The average amount of time that a person spends sleeping over a lifetime.
What is approximately 1/3rd or 25 years of their life?
The two reasons we give medications at Avalon with a full six ounces of water.
What is so the medication doesn't erode the esophagus and helps it get to the stomach to start working.
Utah's nickname, which symbolizes industry and perseverance.
What is the Beehive State?
The thinnest skin is found here on the human body, measuring just 0.05 mm in thickness, while the thickest skin on the human body is found here, up to 1.4 mm thick.
What are the eyelids and feet?
Known as “The Lady With the Lamp,” this woman was a British nurse, social reformer and statistician best known as the founder of modern nursing. Her experiences as a nurse during the Crimean War were foundational in her views about sanitation. She established St. Thomas’s Hospital and the Training School for Nurses, which carries her last name, in 1860. Her efforts to reform healthcare greatly influenced the quality of care in the 19 and 20 centuries.
Who is Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)?
The official name of the sleep/wake cycle is known as this.
What is the circadian rhythm?
This is the abbreviation we use for a medication that is prescribed to you that you can take as needed by requesting it from a nurse.
what is a PRN?
Utah borders these five states.
What are Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and Nevada?
Unique to each individual, these are formed by the patterns of ridges and valleys on the skin's surface, aiding in grip and touch sensitivity.
What are fingerprints?
A medical imaging technique used to measure bone density and the risk of osteoporosis and fractures by passing two X-ray beams through the body.
What is a DEXA scan, also known as a Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry?
The process of building healthy sleep habits and designing your bedroom to be conducive to high-quality sleep, such as using the same bedtime and wake-up time every day, including on weekends, keeping the same routine each night, avoiding screen time for at least 30 minutes before bed and avoiding the urge to check your phone while in bed, outfitting your bedroom with a high-quality mattress and bedding, taking steps to make sure that your sleep isn’t disrupted by light, noise, or an uncomfortable bedroom temperature.
What is sleep hygiene?
The name of the medications in the pink pill that is taken morning and night to help build strong bones.
What is Calcium and Vitamin D
Utah boasts five national parks, known as the "Mighty 5," which include:
What are Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, Canyonlands, and Capitol Reef?