Exam 13: Mechanisms of Infection and Host Protection

The public health nurse is educating the public at a health fair about Ebola virus. Which statement by an audience member indicates that more teaching is needed?

When assessing a female patient with toxic shock syndrome, the nurse may suspect that the patient has recently:

Which finding would the nurse expect in a patient with Salmonellosis?

The school nurse is teaching parents of school-age children ways to avoid transmitting disease. Which portal of entry is involved in spreading disease by direct entry?

The nurse is teaching a prenatal class about newborn immunity. Which statement by a participant requires further teaching?

When teaching a patient about ways to prevent West Nile disease, the nurse should tell the patient to avoid which vector?

Which statement indicates that a nurse's teaching to parents about childhood pneumococcal vaccination has been understood?

Which of the following patients should receive the Zostavax® vaccine?

A patient is being seen in the clinic for vaccinations and medical advice prior to traveling to an underdeveloped nation for volunteer work. Which patient statement indicates that further teaching is needed regarding the transmission of typhus?

When planning a program to discuss the problem of antibiotic drug resistance in the community, the nurse should include which of the following directions?

While monitoring community health trends, the public health nurse notes an emerging infectious disease. What condition would alert the nurse to such an occurrence?

The nurse who removes an indwelling catheter is preventing infection by interrupting which link in the chain of infection?

Which information should be included in the teaching care plan for a patient with tuberculosis (TB) in order to reduce the transmission of the disease?

Which patients in a community clinic would the nurse recommend receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine?

The staff development nurse at the hospital is teaching other nurses about the infectious process. Which statement by a nurse in the class indicates that this class participant needs further teaching about the concept of commensal microorganisms?

A patient is concerned about getting hepatitis A from the hepatitis A vaccine. To allay this concern, the nurse explains that:

What findings should alert the nurse to a potential complication in a patient with Zika virus?

The nurse has just received his assignment of four patients for the shift. The nurse notes that which of the following patients has a healthcare-acquired infection (HAI)?

Which strategy in the plan of care for a mechanically ventilated critically ill patient has the highest priority to reduce the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia?

The nurse should expect to observe which findings in a patient during the incubation period of a viral infection?