Exam 19: Perspectives on Infectious Disease and Bioterrorism

General health promotion measures a nurse can teach a group of clients in order to prevent infections include (Select all that apply)

The nurse explaining an infection to a client with the flu would describe an infection as a/an

The nurse, in compliance with the 1991 Recommendations for Immunization of Healthcare Workers by the CDC, will have received

The nurse caring for a client who develops a urinary tract infection during hospitalization explains that the infection is likely a

The nurse collaborating on a community committee designing responses for a bioterrorism attack would understand that an attack by smallpox (Select all that apply)

The infection control nurse explains to the staff that resistant organisms, like vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), evolve by

An elderly client is admitted and placed into contact and respiratory isolation. The client's spouse becomes upset seeing health care providers in gowns and masks and demands they refrain from wearing them because it is confusing to the client and the spouse thinks the health care providers are scaring the client. The best response by the nurse to help the client and spouse would be to say

The nurse is explaining defense mechanisms to a client and uses the representative barrier example in the first line of defense known as

The nurse working on a community initiative to respond to pandemic flu would design priority interventions that would

The nurse gives diligent catheter care to the clients in a nursing home because the nurse is aware that bacteria can migrate into the bladder in

The nurse assesses a client's systemic manifestations of fever and malaise as the line of defense known as

The nurse caring for a client infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) should

The infection control nurse in a long-term care facility (LTCF) understands that infection control procedures have to be adopted for use in the LTCF because

The nurse can best instruct a client to avoid the acquisition of hookworm by

The nurse assesses for surgical wound infection particularly closely in the client who has undergone

A client is taking a 3-week diving vacation in a foreign country and will be staying at a local hotel known for its native food. The nurse cautions the client that a common traveler's infection is giardiasis, and that the client should be cautious about

A nurse is concerned about caring for three postoperative clients and one client with an infectious disease. The nursing manager educates the nurse about the most effective way to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, which is to

For clients thought to be in the period of communicability for influenza, the community health nurse will focus the interventions on

A client has been exposed to an infectious organism but has no clinical manifestations of disease. The nurse cautions the client that this period of time is the

The nurse is aware that anthrax is at the top of the threat list for bioterror weapons because (Select all that apply)