NURS 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antimicrobial Resistance, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Ct Scan
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Nursing care of a client with infectious diseases. Student notes (content in red covered in primer recording) Types/causes of infections (causative agent: bacterial- bacterial enters body. Mycobacterium tuberculosis: viral- pathogenic organisms that use the host"s genetic machinery to reproduce. Examples: hiv, hepatitis, herpes simplex, flu: fungal- molds and yeasts. Examples: candida albicans, aspergillus- yeast infections, ringworm, athletes foot, etc: protozoa/parasites- protozoa (malaria, toxoplasmosis) and helminths (worms, flukes) Contact- direct physical contact or indirect contact with an inanimate object (i. e. , Clostridium difficile, herpes simplex virus, impetigo) gown a. ii. Droplet- sneezing, coughing, talking (i. e. , influenzae type b, pertussis, streptococcal pneumonia) surgical mask a. iii. Airborne- sneezing, coughing (i. e. , measles, varicella, tuberculosis) fitted mask a. iv. Vector borne- animals or insects as intermediaries (i. e. , malaria, lyme"s disease) Causative agent reservoir exit portal mode of transmission entry portal . Risk factors anything that compromises the immune system: environmental/lifestyle factors- smoking, drinking, malnourishment, medication therapy- immunosuppressant (used for organ transplant patients), corticosteroids, chemotherapy, etc, chronic diseases- c. i.
