Advanced Esthetics Exam Review Flashcards
What generation’s desire, willingness, and financial ability to lengthen youthfulness have had a huge effect on the industry?
Baby Boomers
What can estheticians do if they constantly seek out education?
Successfully meet challenges.
What is true of most of the spa treatments provided today?
They are derivations of ancient treatments.
What is not one of the types of bathouses found in ancient Rome?
Banea, Balnea private, balnea public, or balnea professional?
Balnea Professional
What change in bathing habits occured as a result of the fall of the Roman Empire?
Public bathing was prohibited by the religious culture.
What term refers to the medicinal process of bloodletting, which was performed at baths during medieval times?
Phlebotomy
What trend resulted from the common public fear during the renaissance that the bathouse was the cause of diseases such as syphilis and leprosy?
A decline in the use of public baths.
When did the philopsophy of drinking mineral water, in addition to bathing in it, become commonplace?
Renaissance
What did the French use cold springs for during the seventeenth century?
Drinking therapies
What did the 19th-century Bavarian monk Father Sebastian Kneipp believe that using water to eliminate water waste from the body would do?
Cure disease
What types of businesses were introduced the United States between the mid-1800s and the beginning of the depression in the 1930s?
Spa resorts
What is NOT one of the new treatments that became popular in the United States after World War II?
Bloodletting
What is the fastest growing global market for spas?
Asia
What is true about the amount of training and education estheticans need?
This has long been up for debate.
What caused the demand for solid, advanced esthetics education to skyrocket?
The medical profession’s embrace of esthetics
Why would a doctor hire the better-trained of two candidates for an esthetics position?
Less time is involved training the better-trained candidate
What is NOT one of the primary functions of an esthetician?
Diagnosing medical conditions
What is NOT one of the skill sets required for estheticians?
Ability to perform chemistry
What profession requires the skill sets of loving fashion and being able to guide clients into adapting trends for individual use?
Makeup Artist
What is one of the most common services offered by permanent makeup artist?
Eyeliner
What profession requires knowledge of the technical skills needed to implant color into the skin so that it will stay?
Permanent makeup artist
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?
Medical terminology
What type of makeup techniques should estheticians in the medical field understand?
Corrective
What do estheticians and makeup artists for resorts and cruise lines offer in addition to personal services?
Demonstrations
What is NOT one of the skills required for success as a salon or spa owner?
Strong writing abilities
What is the MAIN reason most esthetics instructors attend workshops and conferences?
To keep their knowledge up to date.
What is a special requirement of those working as manufacturer/sales representitives?
Impeccable Appearance
What do many cosmetics lines do for licensed estheticians because they have realized how much professional training benefit the lines’ clients?
Pay higher wages than salons
What is NOT one of the responsibilities of an assistant buyer?
Estimating product needs
What must a manager be able to do?
Motivate the sales staff
What professional field should someone seeking work as a beauty editor or columnist have experience in?
Journalism
What is a special skill required for work as a state licensing inspector or examiner?
Diplomacy
What step of critical thinking involves evaluating how a problem may have been caused?
Gathering the facts
What step of critical thinking involves considering different points of view?
Examining the evidence
What does the “S” stand for in the term “SOAP notes.” which refers to a method of documenting the critical-thinking process?
Subjective
What is a disease resulting from human immunodeficiency virus?
AIDS
What term refers to the rapid-onset, short-term initial stage of disease?
Acute
What does the term “antibacterial” mean?
Destroying or stopping the growth of bacteria
What fluid is NOT considered contaminated and/or infectious under standard precautions?
Sweat
What term refers to any object that can penetrate the skin?
Sharp
What is the correct term for a plan for avoiding potential exposure and for dealing with it should exposure occur?
Safety plan
What term indicates that something is transmitted through direct blood-to-blood contact?
Bloodborne
What is mechanical irritation?
Tissue damage due to repeated physical contact to the tissue
How are transient microorganisms removed from the hands?
Hand washing
What are microorganisms that are often present on the surface of the human body?
Resident microorganisms
What is a pathogen?
A microorganism or substance capable of producing disease
What term describes the risks involved in piercing mucous membranes or the skin through needlesticks, bites, cuts, and abrasions?
Parenteral Hazards
What term refers to any living thing, plant, or animal?
Organism
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?
Opportunistic bacteria
Where would one aquire a nosocomial infection?
Hospital
What is NOT one of the components of a mucous membrane?
Attic Membrane
What is the correct term for the process of becoming immune or rendering a person immune to a pathogen?
Immunization
What term refers to devices that isolate or remove bloodborne pathogen hazards from the workplace?
Enineering controls
What is an infection that occurs when bacteria travel from a site where they were harmless to a site where they cause infection?
Endogenous infection
What is NOT one of the definitions of the word “contaminate”?
To isolate or remove
What does the term “asepis” mean?
A condition free from germs and any form of life
What variety of hepatitis is transmitted by drinking water or eating food contaminated with fecal matter containing the virus?
Hepatitis A
What variety of hepatitis can be treated without the use of interferon?
Hepatitis A
What is NOT one of the times when hand washing should be performed?
After gloving
What federal agency would send inspectors to a salon because an accident has occured in which three or more employees were injured?
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
What should you do if you are visited by an inspector from OSHA?
Write down the inspector’s name
What is the second link in the chain of infection?
Reservoir where the agent resides
What is the second to last link in the chain of infection?
Portal of entry
Why should you follow OSHA guidelines if you are a sole proprieror and work alone?
To live a long and healthy life
What is NOT one of the means by which human immunodeficincy virus (HIV) is spread from an infected person to a noninfected person?
Contact with sweat
What organ is most often affected by the highly infectious disease tuberculosis?
Lungs
Why have many states passed laws that prohibit spitting on sidewalks?
Because tuberculosis can live on a sidewalk in sputum for six months
What is NOT one of the forms in which methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) skin infections can present themselves?
Vitiligo
What is one of the steps you can take to minimize the spread of MRSA?
Cleaning and disinfecting all work surfaces
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?
Vector transmission
