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Advanced Esthetics Exam Review Flashcards

1
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What generation’s desire, willingness, and financial ability to lengthen youthfulness have had a huge effect on the industry?

A

Baby Boomers

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What can estheticians do if they constantly seek out education?

A

Successfully meet challenges.

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What is true of most of the spa treatments provided today?

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They are derivations of ancient treatments.

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What is not one of the types of bathouses found in ancient Rome?

Banea, Balnea private, balnea public, or balnea professional?

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Balnea Professional

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What change in bathing habits occured as a result of the fall of the Roman Empire?

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Public bathing was prohibited by the religious culture.

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What term refers to the medicinal process of bloodletting, which was performed at baths during medieval times?

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Phlebotomy

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What trend resulted from the common public fear during the renaissance that the bathouse was the cause of diseases such as syphilis and leprosy?

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A decline in the use of public baths.

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When did the philopsophy of drinking mineral water, in addition to bathing in it, become commonplace?

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Renaissance

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What did the French use cold springs for during the seventeenth century?

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Drinking therapies

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What did the 19th-century Bavarian monk Father Sebastian Kneipp believe that using water to eliminate water waste from the body would do?

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Cure disease

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What types of businesses were introduced the United States between the mid-1800s and the beginning of the depression in the 1930s?

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Spa resorts

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What is NOT one of the new treatments that became popular in the United States after World War II?

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Bloodletting

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What is the fastest growing global market for spas?

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Asia

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14
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What is true about the amount of training and education estheticans need?

A

This has long been up for debate.

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What caused the demand for solid, advanced esthetics education to skyrocket?

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The medical profession’s embrace of esthetics

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16
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Why would a doctor hire the better-trained of two candidates for an esthetics position?

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Less time is involved training the better-trained candidate

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What is NOT one of the primary functions of an esthetician?

A

Diagnosing medical conditions

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18
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What is NOT one of the skill sets required for estheticians?

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Ability to perform chemistry

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What profession requires the skill sets of loving fashion and being able to guide clients into adapting trends for individual use?

A

Makeup Artist

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20
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What is one of the most common services offered by permanent makeup artist?

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Eyeliner

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21
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What profession requires knowledge of the technical skills needed to implant color into the skin so that it will stay?

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Permanent makeup artist

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What should an esthetician seeking work in the medical field have a solid knowledge of, in addition to his or her knowledge of advanced skin care?

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Medical terminology

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23
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What type of makeup techniques should estheticians in the medical field understand?

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Corrective

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24
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What do estheticians and makeup artists for resorts and cruise lines offer in addition to personal services?

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Demonstrations

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What is NOT one of the skills required for success as a salon or spa owner?

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Strong writing abilities

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26
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What is the MAIN reason most esthetics instructors attend workshops and conferences?

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To keep their knowledge up to date.

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27
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What is a special requirement of those working as manufacturer/sales representitives?

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Impeccable Appearance

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What do many cosmetics lines do for licensed estheticians because they have realized how much professional training benefit the lines’ clients?

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Pay higher wages than salons

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29
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What is NOT one of the responsibilities of an assistant buyer?

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Estimating product needs

30
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What must a manager be able to do?

A

Motivate the sales staff

31
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What professional field should someone seeking work as a beauty editor or columnist have experience in?

A

Journalism

32
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What is a special skill required for work as a state licensing inspector or examiner?

A

Diplomacy

33
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What step of critical thinking involves evaluating how a problem may have been caused?

A

Gathering the facts

34
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What step of critical thinking involves considering different points of view?

A

Examining the evidence

35
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What does the “S” stand for in the term “SOAP notes.” which refers to a method of documenting the critical-thinking process?

A

Subjective

36
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What is a disease resulting from human immunodeficiency virus?

A

AIDS

37
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What term refers to the rapid-onset, short-term initial stage of disease?

A

Acute

38
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What does the term “antibacterial” mean?

A

Destroying or stopping the growth of bacteria

39
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What fluid is NOT considered contaminated and/or infectious under standard precautions?

A

Sweat

40
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What term refers to any object that can penetrate the skin?

A

Sharp

41
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What is the correct term for a plan for avoiding potential exposure and for dealing with it should exposure occur?

A

Safety plan

42
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What term indicates that something is transmitted through direct blood-to-blood contact?

A

Bloodborne

43
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What is mechanical irritation?

A

Tissue damage due to repeated physical contact to the tissue

44
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How are transient microorganisms removed from the hands?

A

Hand washing

45
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What are microorganisms that are often present on the surface of the human body?

A

Resident microorganisms

46
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What is a pathogen?

A

A microorganism or substance capable of producing disease

47
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What term describes the risks involved in piercing mucous membranes or the skin through needlesticks, bites, cuts, and abrasions?

A

Parenteral Hazards

48
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What term refers to any living thing, plant, or animal?

A

Organism

49
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What are bacteria that will not cause harm when on a healthy host, but can cause infection and disease once they have entered the skin?

A

Opportunistic bacteria

50
Q

Where would one aquire a nosocomial infection?

A

Hospital

51
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What is NOT one of the components of a mucous membrane?

A

Attic Membrane

52
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What is the correct term for the process of becoming immune or rendering a person immune to a pathogen?

A

Immunization

53
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What term refers to devices that isolate or remove bloodborne pathogen hazards from the workplace?

A

Enineering controls

54
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What is an infection that occurs when bacteria travel from a site where they were harmless to a site where they cause infection?

A

Endogenous infection

55
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What is NOT one of the definitions of the word “contaminate”?

A

To isolate or remove

56
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What does the term “asepis” mean?

A

A condition free from germs and any form of life

57
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What variety of hepatitis is transmitted by drinking water or eating food contaminated with fecal matter containing the virus?

A

Hepatitis A

58
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What variety of hepatitis can be treated without the use of interferon?

A

Hepatitis A

59
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What is NOT one of the times when hand washing should be performed?

A

After gloving

60
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What federal agency would send inspectors to a salon because an accident has occured in which three or more employees were injured?

A

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

61
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What should you do if you are visited by an inspector from OSHA?

A

Write down the inspector’s name

62
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What is the second link in the chain of infection?

A

Reservoir where the agent resides

63
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What is the second to last link in the chain of infection?

A

Portal of entry

64
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Why should you follow OSHA guidelines if you are a sole proprieror and work alone?

A

To live a long and healthy life

65
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What is NOT one of the means by which human immunodeficincy virus (HIV) is spread from an infected person to a noninfected person?

A

Contact with sweat

66
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What organ is most often affected by the highly infectious disease tuberculosis?

A

Lungs

67
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Why have many states passed laws that prohibit spitting on sidewalks?

A

Because tuberculosis can live on a sidewalk in sputum for six months

68
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What is NOT one of the forms in which methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) skin infections can present themselves?

A

Vitiligo

69
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What is one of the steps you can take to minimize the spread of MRSA?

A

Cleaning and disinfecting all work surfaces

70
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What mode of transmission involves contact with an animal, insect, or parasite that transports infection by biting the host or by depositing feces or eggs in broken skin?

A

Vector transmission

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