Exam 34: Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

The nurse explains that the initial stage of an HIV infection usually lasts from:

When the patient with HIV is diagnosed with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML),the nurse encourages the patient to:

In assessing a patient with AIDS for risk factors,the nurse recognizes the most risky behavior that the patient reported as:

The nurse would suspect an infection by CMV when the patient with AIDS says:

The nurse cautions a patient with HIV infection who has been prescribed highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)that inconsistent administration of the drug can result in the:

In designing a teaching plan for a patient with AIDS,relative to food preparation precautions,the nurse would include the need to: (Select all that apply.)

The nurse clarifies that a patient with HIV does not necessarily have AIDS until:

The nurse lists the opportunistic fungal disease that threatens patients with HIV,which include: (Select all that apply.)

If the first ELISA is positive,then:

Before the initiation of any anti-HIV drug protocol,the patient is assessed for the willingness to:

The patient with HIV complains to the home health nurse that he has been having watery diarrhea for the last 10 days.Because the nurse suspects toxoplasmosis,a significant question for the nurse to ask would be:

One of the implementations that the nurse could use to increase the comfort of a patient with oral hair leukoplakia is to:

The nurse evaluates that teaching,relative to the progression of HIV infections,has been effective when the patient with HIV in the latent stage says:

To avoid the exposure to bacillary angiomatosis (BA),the nurse advises the patient with HIV to avoid:

The young man at the HIV clinic tells the nurse how relieved he is that he does not have HIV,because he now has no symptoms at all when just a few weeks ago he felt awful.The nurse's most helpful response would be:

The nurse reminds a group of high school students that although homosexual men are stereotyped as victims of HIV,the disease is also observed in: (Select all that apply.)

The nurse caring for a patient with HIV infection who is taking Retrovir,a nucleoside antiviral that is a reverse transcriptase inhibitor,should be especially observant for symptoms of:

The very anxious young man comes to the clinic believing that he may have HIV infection because of his persistent influenza-like symptoms and his risky sexual behavior.The nurse anticipates that a positive blood analysis would show:

The nurse explains that HIV is introduced to the systemic circulation by the ____________________,which is found in the mucous membranes.

The school nurse uses a chart to demonstrate that,according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),the population with the greatest incidence of human immunodeficiency viral (HIV)infection in the United States is: