Communicable Disease Nursing_MBOL

The nurse sees a child with mumps. The mother says that the child is not eating well and asks for suggestions. The nurse most appropriately makes which suggestion? Group of answer choices Provide cool fluids with minimum of acids Provide a regular diet tray at frequent intervals Provide cool table foods with spices Provide warm, chopped foods Which nursing intervention will interrupt the transmission of infection? Group of answer choices Encouraging a healthy and increased protein diet Hand washing before and after providing care to a client Changing linen for the client each day Putting the client in a private room A college student is required to be inoculated for hepatitis before beginning college. The nurse realizes this client will be inoculated to prevent the development of: Group of answer choices Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Hepatitis D Hepatitis E The nurse knows that bites from dogs are at risk for infection. Which of the following interventions should be done to prevent infection? Group of answer choices Nothing; bites from dogs have a low incidence of infection Give the rabies vaccine Clean and irrigate the wounds Give antibiotics immediately A toddler is being treated for pinworms. What advice should the nurse give to the mother to prevent reinfection? Group of answer choices Don't allow the child to play on the floor. Urge the child to void as frequently as possible. Don't allow the child to play with the family dog. Help the child wash hands before eating. The nurse is caring for a 6-month-old child with a rash. Which information from the parent strongly suggests that roseola is the diagnosis? Group of answer choices The infant is lethargic and not interested in playing. The infant's temperature fell when the rash appeared. The infant's temperature rose at the same time as the rash appeared. The rash is a mixture of papules and pustules. A client admitted to the medical surgical unit with possible pulmonary tuberculosis asks the nurse why sputum specimens are needed if the skin test and chest x-ray indicate tuberculosis. The best response by the nurse would be: Group of answer choices The sputum collection has nothing to do with the diagnosis of TB. Sputum collection gives information about the progression of the disease. Definitive diagnosis of the infection can only be made by the presence of the organism in sputum. The sputum helps to determine the presence of secondary infection. Which intervention would be the most important for the nurse to include in the plan of care for a child with infectious mononucleosis? Group of answer choices Limiting fluid intake Administering a corticosteroid Counseling the child to stop kissing Moving the child carefully What is the immunization that an infant should have before reaching one year old? Group of answer choices OPV DPT Measles BCG When the physician looks in a child's mouth during a sick-visit exam, the mother exclaims: “Her tongue is bright red! It was not like that yesterday.” The physician would most likely order which medication based on the probable diagnosis of scarlet fever? Group of answer choices Acetaminophen to decrease the throat pain Erythromycin to prevent the spread to siblings Steroids to decrease the inflammation Penicillin to prevent acute glomerulonephritis The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends the hepatitis B vaccine be administered to which neonates? Group of answer choices Exposed neonates only Neonates showing symptoms All neonates Neonates of mothers with human immunodeficiency virus Infants or children receiving antibiotics may develop thrush (oral candidiasis). Which of the following findings suggests that an infant has thrush? Group of answer choices Diffuse buccal erythema without discharge Oral pruritus Mucopurulent sputum Presence of a white membrane on tongue In diseases that have night sweats as a symptom such as tuberculosis, what causes the sweat to occur only at night and not consistently during the day as well? Group of answer choices Due to the infective response of the body Due to chest pain Due to anxiety Due to coughing You anticipate that a 16-year-old girl with infectious mononucleosis will be placed on bed rest to Group of answer choices prevent irritation of her stiff neck. protect her from joint involvement. prevent liver involvement. prevent splenic rupture. Rico and Rachelle, a couple, both have HIV and asked you if they still need to use condom. Your best response would be? Group of answer choices Yes. People who have HIV still need protection from sexually transmitted diseases and may want to prevent pregnancy. It depends on your preferences. Either or, it doesn't matter as long as you are monogamous to each other. No. You both don't need to use condom since you have the same strain of virus. Yes. You need to use a condom and a spermicide to have an optimal protection. Which of the following statements is/are correct: I) Chikungunya and dengue's vector is Aedes aegypti; II) Aedes albopictus can also transmit Chikungunya virus; III) Classical dengue fever has no hepatomegaly; IV) Dengue fever has arthritis and Chikungunya has myalgia. Group of answer choices All of the options