NUR 2092 Pharmacology Ch 8 Anti-
Infective Agents Questions with Correct
Answers | New Update 100% Verified
The client has been taking her antibiotic for five days. She tells the nurse
that she is now experiencing vaginal itching and discharge. The nurse
suspects what has occurred? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The client has developed a
superinfection.
When caring for infants and the elderly who are in need of an antimicrobial
agent, the nurse is aware that when compared with doses for young and
middle-aged adults, these clients may require: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a lower
dose.
,What is a major factor that influences whether an individual will acquire an
infection? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The person's ability to defend against invading
microorganisms
A client's culture and sensitivity testing has confirmed the presence of an
infection and the client has been prescribed a bacteriostatic antibiotic. What
should the nurse teach the client about this medication? (Select all that
apply.) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The drug interferes with the bacteria's ability to
reproduce.
The drug has the potential to cure the infection.
The nurse administering an anti-infective agent recognizes that the drug
will destroy some human cells as well as pathogens because of the
absence of: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔selective toxicity.
What information about antibiotic therapy should the nurse include in a
client's medication education? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Maintenance of normal
bacterial flora is essential to health during the therapy.
Although the numbers and virulence of microorganisms help determine
whether a person acquires an infection, another major factor is: - 🧠
, ANSWER ✔✔the host's ability to defend itself against the would-be
invaders.
After teaching a group of students about resistance, the instructor
determines that the students need additional teaching when they identify
what as a way that microorganisms develop resistance? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Production of a chemical to act as an agonist
A nurse is aware that the concept of selective toxicity is foundational to
antimicrobial therapy. Which statement most accurately describes selective
toxicity? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A drug harms microbes without harming human
cells.
Like many other classes of drugs, anti-infective drugs can have a variety of
adverse effects. What is the most common, potentially serious, adverse
effect of antimicrobial drugs? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Toxic effects on the kidney
A client is informed of a need for extensive dental surgery. The dentist
prescribes a course of antibiotic therapy before beginning the procedure
and continuing for 5 days after the procedure. What is this is an example
of? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔prophylaxis
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Infective Agents Questions with Correct
Answers | New Update 100% Verified
The client has been taking her antibiotic for five days. She tells the nurse
that she is now experiencing vaginal itching and discharge. The nurse
suspects what has occurred? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The client has developed a
superinfection.
When caring for infants and the elderly who are in need of an antimicrobial
agent, the nurse is aware that when compared with doses for young and
middle-aged adults, these clients may require: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a lower
dose.
,What is a major factor that influences whether an individual will acquire an
infection? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The person's ability to defend against invading
microorganisms
A client's culture and sensitivity testing has confirmed the presence of an
infection and the client has been prescribed a bacteriostatic antibiotic. What
should the nurse teach the client about this medication? (Select all that
apply.) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The drug interferes with the bacteria's ability to
reproduce.
The drug has the potential to cure the infection.
The nurse administering an anti-infective agent recognizes that the drug
will destroy some human cells as well as pathogens because of the
absence of: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔selective toxicity.
What information about antibiotic therapy should the nurse include in a
client's medication education? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Maintenance of normal
bacterial flora is essential to health during the therapy.
Although the numbers and virulence of microorganisms help determine
whether a person acquires an infection, another major factor is: - 🧠
, ANSWER ✔✔the host's ability to defend itself against the would-be
invaders.
After teaching a group of students about resistance, the instructor
determines that the students need additional teaching when they identify
what as a way that microorganisms develop resistance? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Production of a chemical to act as an agonist
A nurse is aware that the concept of selective toxicity is foundational to
antimicrobial therapy. Which statement most accurately describes selective
toxicity? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A drug harms microbes without harming human
cells.
Like many other classes of drugs, anti-infective drugs can have a variety of
adverse effects. What is the most common, potentially serious, adverse
effect of antimicrobial drugs? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Toxic effects on the kidney
A client is informed of a need for extensive dental surgery. The dentist
prescribes a course of antibiotic therapy before beginning the procedure
and continuing for 5 days after the procedure. What is this is an example
of? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔prophylaxis
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