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The nurse caring for a patient who has tuberculosis and who is taking isoniazid, rifampin, and streptomycin reviews the medical record and notes the patient's sputum cultures reveal resistance to streptomycin.
 
  The nurse will anticipate that the provider will take which action?
  a. Add ethambutol (Myambutol).
  b. Change the streptomycin to clarithromycin.
  c. Change the streptomycin to kanamycin.
  d. Order renal function tests.

Question 2

A patient who has completed the first phase of a three-drug regimen for tuberculosis has a positive sputum acid-bacilli test. The nurse will tell the patient that
 
  a. drug resistance has probably occurred.
  b. it may be another month before this test is negative.
  c. the provider will change the pyrazinamide to ethambutol.
  d. there may be a need to remain in the first phase of therapy for several weeks.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 23, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
The patient's current regimen is first-phase treatment. If resistance to streptomycin develops, the provider can change to kanamycin or to ciprofloxacin. Ethambutol is added if there is resistance to isoniazid. Clarithromycin is used during phase II. Renal function tests are not indicated.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
The goal is for the patient's sputum test to be negative 2 to 3 months after the therapy. The positive test does not indicate drug resistance. The provider will not change the drugs or keep the patient in the first phase longer than planned.


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