Author Question: While teaching about HIV/AIDS to a group of high school seniors, the school health nurse will begin ... (Read 635 times)

MGLQZ · **on:** Jun 25, 2018

While teaching about HIV/AIDS to a group of high school seniors, the school health nurse will begin by explaining the basic facts that will likely include which of the following information?

A)
Like all viruses, HIV is a genetic material made from DNA with long molecules that carry genetic information.
B)
HIV is different from other viruses since it is a retrovirus that selectively attacks the body's immune cells.
C)
There are two types of HIV, but the one that is endemic to the United States is HIV type 2.
D)
HIV type 1 for some reason rarely develops into full-blown AIDS.

Question 2

After years of going to different physicians with vague symptoms, a 55-year-old client with a history of Hodgkin disease has been diagnosed with a secondary immunodeficiency syndrome.

The client asks the nurse what this means. The nurse knows from the following list of characteristics that secondary immunodeficiency disorders: Select all that apply.
A)
may be inherited as a sex-linked trait.
B)
usually develop later in life.
C)
may be a result of chemotherapy being used to treat a cancer.
D)
can result from frequent recurring Staphylococcus aureus infections.
E)
can occur in a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patient taking corticosteroids daily.

Kingjoffery · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans:
B

Feedback:

HIV is a retrovirus that selectively attacks the CD4+ T lymphocytes, the immune cells responsible for orchestrating and coordinating the immune response to infection. It must change from RNA to DNA through a series of stages in order to get in a cell and begin replication. HIV type 2 is endemic in West Africa but is rarely seen in other parts of the world. People with HIV-2 tend not to develop AIDS.

Answer to Question 2

Ans:
B, C, E

Feedback:

Secondary immunodeficiency disorders develop later in life as a result of other pathophysiologic states such as malnutrition, disseminated cancers, infection of the cells of the immune system, and treatment with immunosuppressive drugs, such as chemotherapeutic agents. Primary disorders may be congenital or inherited as sex-linked, autosomal dominant, or autosomal recessive traits. Humoral (B-cell) immunodeficiencies are primarily associated with recurrent infections like Staphylococcus aureus.