The nurse educates a 54 year old male patient with a painful fractured toe that the pain is related to the inflammatory response. What process causes this discomfort?

A young father tells the occupational nurse at work that he is afraid he will give his 2-week-old baby his cold virus. The nurse can educate him on infection prevention measures and that the baby is protected by which type of immunity?

The Infection prevention nurse is educating on keeping the immune system healthy. How does long-term alcohol abuse lead to alteration in the immune system?

The discharge med-surg nurse provides discharge teaching about antibiotic therapy. Which statement indicates that the patient requires additional teaching?

The nurse is educating in health immune response. Which classification of medication would make a child most susceptible to an opportunistic infection?

Which type of lymphocytes cells actually produces either sensitized lymphocytes or antibodies?

The nurse is aware patients with long-term untreated ulcerative colitis is a risk factor for developing which disorder?

The infection prevention nurse explains to a community health group that exposure to a pathogen stimulates the macrophages to migrate to the area of infection to ingest and destroy the pathogen. This statement describes which process?

A community health nurse educates receiving a vaccination or immunization gives a patient which type of artificial immunity?

A nurse is assessing the reflexes of a client who has an unrepaired femur fracture and has suddenly become stuporous. For which of the following findings should the nurse identify that the client exhibits Babinski’s sign?