When a patient shows symptoms of pneumonia, the nurse knows to first understand three key factors about the disease, including
A. The infectious agents that cause disease
B. The environment relevant to the transmission of disease from one person to another
C. Who is at risk for becoming infected
D. All of the above
Question 2
A nurse working in a community clinic noticed an unusually large number of patients with a specific type of influenza. The nurse knew that the disease was running rampant in other parts of the country, making it ____.
A. A pandemic
B. An endemic
C. An epidemic
D. Both 1 and 2