DIFFICULT ROUND - Cease the Disease

For the rabies treatment, how is ERIG (Equine rabies immunoglobulin) administered?

Enteric isolation is intended for patients with Tuberculosis. On the other hand, universal precaution is applied when handling blood and body fluids.

• The first statement is correct. The second statement is incorrect.

• The first statement is incorrect. The second statement is correct.

• Both statements are correct.

• Both statements are incorrect.

Which of the following diseases does not correspond with its causative agent?

• Nocardia: Ancylostoma duodenale

• Poliomyelitis: Legio debilitans

• German Measles: Rubella virus

• Anthrax: Bacillus anthracis

A client comes to the outpatient clinic where you work complaining of abdominal pain, diarrhea, shortness of breath, and epistaxis. Which of the following actions would you take FIRST?

• Screening clients for upper respiratory tract symptoms

• Call an ambulance to take the client immediately to the hospital

• Ask the client about any recent travel to Asia or the Middle East

• Determine whether the client has had recommended immunizations

You are a school nurse. Which action will you take to have the MOST impact on the incidence of infectious disease in the school?

• Provide written information about infection control to all patients.

• Ensure that students are immunized according to national guidelines.

• Make soap and water readily available in classrooms.

• Teach students how to cover their mouths when coughing.

As a nurse, you've been assigned to give a couple health education about genital herpes. You should include information about:

• How the disease can only be conveyed if visible lesions are present.

• The necessity for petroleum-based products.

• The ability to ignore safer-sex practices now that he's been infected.

• The significance of notifying his friends and family about the sickness.

It is an integral transmembrane in flaviviruses that can lead to small head size (microcephaly) in zika virus.

A patient with dengue begins to have a plasma leakage into his pleural and abdominal cavities, in which his heart increases and reduces blood volume. His diastolic blood pressure increases without any substantial change in his systolic blood pressure. Why is it important to assess if the patient has an early sign of plasma leakage?

Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted diseased caused by 2 types of herpes simplex virus or HSV. Most infected persons do not know that they acquired the disease because their symptoms are mild, or they are asymptomatic. To confirm it, what are the diagnostic tests a suspected patient should undergo?

The clinic nurse is instructing the parent of a child with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection regarding immunizations. The nurse should provide which instruction to the parent?

• The hepatitis B vaccine will not be given to the child.

• The inactivated influenza vaccine will be given yearly.

•  The varicella vaccine will be given before 6 months of age.

• Western blot test needs to be performed and the results evaluated before immunizations.