Advanced Esthetics Exam Review

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Baby Boomers

Question 2

What can estheticians do if they constantly seek out education?

Answer 2

Successfully meet challenges.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

They are derivations of ancient treatments.

Question 4

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

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

Answer 4

Balnea Professional

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Public bathing was prohibited by the religious culture.

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Phlebotomy

Question 7

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

Answer 7

A decline in the use of public baths.

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Renaissance

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Drinking therapies

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Cure disease

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Spa resorts

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Bloodletting

Question 13

What is the fastest growing global market for spas?

Answer 13

Asia

Question 14

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

Answer 14

This has long been up for debate.

Question 15

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

Answer 15

The medical profession’s embrace of esthetics

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Less time is involved training the better-trained candidate

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Diagnosing medical conditions

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Ability to perform chemistry

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Makeup Artist

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Eyeliner

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Permanent makeup artist

Question 22

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?

Answer 22

Medical terminology

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Corrective

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Demonstrations

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Strong writing abilities

Question 26

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

Answer 26

To keep their knowledge up to date.

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Impeccable Appearance

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Pay higher wages than salons

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Estimating product needs

Question 30

What must a manager be able to do?

Answer 30

Motivate the sales staff

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Journalism

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Diplomacy

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Gathering the facts

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Examining the evidence

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Subjective

Question 36

What is a disease resulting from human immunodeficiency virus?

Answer 36

AIDS

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Acute

Question 38

What does the term "antibacterial" mean?

Answer 38

Destroying or stopping the growth of bacteria

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Sweat

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Sharp

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Safety plan

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Bloodborne

Question 43

What is mechanical irritation?

Answer 43

Tissue damage due to repeated physical contact to the tissue

Question 44

How are transient microorganisms removed from the hands?

Answer 44

Hand washing

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Resident microorganisms

Question 46

What is a pathogen?

Answer 46

A microorganism or substance capable of producing disease

Question 47

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

Answer 47

Parenteral Hazards

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Organism

Question 49

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?

Answer 49

Opportunistic bacteria

Question 50

Where would one aquire a nosocomial infection?

Answer 50

Hospital

Question 51

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

Answer 51

Attic Membrane

Question 52

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

Answer 52

Immunization

Question 53

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

Answer 53

Enineering controls

Question 54

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

Answer 54

Endogenous infection

Question 55

What is NOT one of the definitions of the word "contaminate"?

Answer 55

To isolate or remove

Question 56

What does the term "asepis" mean?

Answer 56

A condition free from germs and any form of life

Question 57

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

Answer 57

Hepatitis A

Question 58

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

Answer 58

Hepatitis A

Question 59

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

Answer 59

After gloving

Question 60

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

Answer 60

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

Question 61

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

Answer 61

Write down the inspector's name

Question 62

What is the second link in the chain of infection?

Answer 62

Reservoir where the agent resides

Question 63

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

Answer 63

Portal of entry

Question 64

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

Answer 64

To live a long and healthy life

Question 65

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

Answer 65

Contact with sweat

Question 66

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

Answer 66

Lungs

Question 67

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

Answer 67

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

Question 68

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

Answer 68

Vitiligo

Question 69

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

Answer 69

Cleaning and disinfecting all work surfaces

Question 70

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?

Answer 70

Vector transmission