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.
Patient with a cerebrovascular accident.
Patient health history form Cont.
Medical assistant interviewing a patient.
Koplik spots in the mouth of a patient with measles.
Medical Gymnasts Assist Patient in Performing Movements, 1909.