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laurencescou

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The nurse at a public health infant immunization clinic is acting as a preceptor for a nursing student.
 
  To assess the student's understanding of vaccinations, the nurse asks the student where the hepatitis B vaccine should be administered. The student would be correct to respond that the hepatitis B vaccine should be administered in the
  a. dorsogluteal muscle in an adult.
  b. anterolateral thigh in infants.
  c. ventrogluteal muscle in adolescents.
  d. deltoid of toddlers.

Question 2

The public health nurse is teaching a group of parents about immunizations. The nurse tells that parents that after receiving the varicella virus vaccine, children should temporarily avoid close contact with which of the following?
 
  (Select all that apply.)
  a. Neonates
  b. Siblings
  c. Relatives over age 65
  d. Pregnant women
  e. Individuals infected with HIV



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
The HepB vaccine should be administered in the anterolateral thigh in infants and children.
The vaccine should be administered in the deltoid of adults and adolescents.
The vaccine should not be administered in the deltoid of toddlers, because they have little muscle in that location.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A, D, E
To reduce the risk of transmission, vaccine recipients should temporarily avoid close contact with susceptible high-risk individuals (e.g., neonates, pregnant women, immunocompromised people).




laurencescou

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Reply 2 on: Jul 23, 2018
:D TYSM


adf223

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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