Exam 2 Slide Deck Clicker Qs & PP

Question 1

Patient has an order for the varicella vaccine. It is most important for the nurse to assess the patient for what?

Answer 1

One who has a use of high dose systemic steroids in the past month should not receive which vaccine?

Question 2

A patient with AIDS was cut by rusty piece of metal or walking outside. He recalls that his last tetanus booster was over 20 years ago. Which immunization therapy will he receive at this time?

Answer 2

Why would someone receive tetanus immunoglobulin?

Question 3

Breast-fed newborn is provided immunity by which immunoglobulins?

Answer 3

How does one receive IgG and IgA?

Question 4

Which immunoglobulin crosses the placenta?

Answer 4

What is IgG?

Question 5

Which immunoglobulin is passed through colostrum?

Answer 5

What is IgA?

Question 6

Student nurse asks an instructor where to find accurate information regarding immunizations. What would the instructor recommend?

Answer 6

What information would the CDC website carry?

Question 7

A pt. Is exposed to an organism that causes disease. Prescriber prescribes and immunoglobulin to prevent this illness. This is an example of what?

Answer 7

What is an example of passive immunity?

Question 8

A patient asks you how to be protected against a particular disease. Explain acquired active immunity to the patient how?

Answer 8

A patient develops disease, or a live attenuated vaccine is given, or a vaccine is given produced for killed organisms.

Question 9

What is a vaccine?

Answer 9

What is a suspension of bacteria or viruses that are non-pathogenic?

Question 10

If a patient has an allergy to Baker’s yeast, what vaccine should they not receive?

Answer 10

What allergy is contradicted in the Hep B vaccine?

Question 11

If a patient has an allergy to gelatin or neomycin, what vaccines should they not receive?

Answer 11

What allergies are contraindicated to the Varacella zoster an MMR vaccine?

Question 12

What is pathogenicity?

Answer 12

What is the ability for an organism to cause infection?

Question 13

What is verulence

Answer 13

What is the ability of an organism to produce disease when present in numbers?

Question 14

What type of immunization occurs during breastfeeding?

Answer 14

What is how natural passive immunization occurs?

Question 15

Active immunizations are contraindicated in which patients?

Answer 15

What types of vaccines are not recommended for Pt.s with febrile illness >103, immunosuppressed, pt.s receiving cancer chemotherapy?

Question 16

Drugs that are designed to inhibit or slow down the growth of microbes that do not necessarily kill them are called what?

Answer 16

What are bacteriostatic drugs?

Question 17

Which are considered sterile? Urine, pharynx, distal urethra, vagina, Salina, spinal fluid

Answer 17

Spinal fluid and urine are considered what?

Question 18

What are characteristics of resident microflora?

Answer 18

Different microorganism species inhabit various areas of the body. This is called what?

Question 19

How do antiviral drugs act?

Answer 19

Reducing the rate of viral replication is done in what?

Question 20

What method do viruses used to replicate?

Answer 20

Using a host cell to produce in assemble components is how what class of microorganisms replicate?

Question 21

Bacterial endospore can survive what?

Answer 21

What specific type of bacteria can survive high temperatures and a dry environment?

Question 22

Nosocomial infections mean what?

Answer 22

What type of infection is acquired in a hospital or medical facility?

Question 23

What are the two hallmark structures for viruses?

Answer 23

A protein coat and either DNA or RNA are present in what type of microbe?

Question 24

Why do we use multiple medications to treat HIV?

Answer 24

Reduces risk for opportunistic infections, more affective against resistant strains, reduce viral load.

Question 25

What is important to know about antifungal medications?

Answer 25

• C&S should be obtained prior to starting therapy
• take meds as prescribed
• monitor renal and hepatic function

Question 26

Organisms ability to invade or overcome body defenses is called what?

Answer 26

What is pathogenicity?