HESI Case Study: HIV & TB - (Questions/Answers)
How Should the nurse respond? ✔️Ans - Your partner may stay but he
needs to wear a mask.
What teaching should the nurse implement? ✔️Ans - TB is spread
through the air.
What information should the nurse provide to the UAP on infection control
practices? ✔️Ans - Possible TB requires negative pressure room.
The nurse notices a UAP about to Jeff 's room to deliver a meal tray w/o
wearing any protective apparel. What info should the nurse provide to the
UAP? ✔️Ans - Healthcare workers need to wear a mask when entering
the room of patient suspected of having TB.
What tasks can the nurse delegate to the UAP? ✔️Ans - Tell Jeff the
sputum will be collected in the morning, set sputum collection cups by
bedside, document time and date when each sputum sample is collected.
What activity should Jeff do in the morning upon wakening? ✔️Ans -
Obtain the first of three sputum samples for lab testing.
The nurse should based her response about the right of a nurse to refuse to
care for clients w/ HIV? ✔️Ans - The nurse may refuse to care for a
patient in which the risk outweighs a nurse's responsibility to care for a
patient or if the care conflicts with the nurse's ethical standards.
How should the nursing supervisor respond to the nurse who does not
want to care for Jeff ? ✔️Ans - I understand you want to protect your
children. Please tell me your concerns about taking care of patient with
HIV.
What statement shows that Jeff understands why he is at risk for TB?
✔️Ans - My T-helper cells are diminished from HIV and those cells are
needed to fight HIV.
How Should the nurse respond? ✔️Ans - Your partner may stay but he
needs to wear a mask.
What teaching should the nurse implement? ✔️Ans - TB is spread
through the air.
What information should the nurse provide to the UAP on infection control
practices? ✔️Ans - Possible TB requires negative pressure room.
The nurse notices a UAP about to Jeff 's room to deliver a meal tray w/o
wearing any protective apparel. What info should the nurse provide to the
UAP? ✔️Ans - Healthcare workers need to wear a mask when entering
the room of patient suspected of having TB.
What tasks can the nurse delegate to the UAP? ✔️Ans - Tell Jeff the
sputum will be collected in the morning, set sputum collection cups by
bedside, document time and date when each sputum sample is collected.
What activity should Jeff do in the morning upon wakening? ✔️Ans -
Obtain the first of three sputum samples for lab testing.
The nurse should based her response about the right of a nurse to refuse to
care for clients w/ HIV? ✔️Ans - The nurse may refuse to care for a
patient in which the risk outweighs a nurse's responsibility to care for a
patient or if the care conflicts with the nurse's ethical standards.
How should the nursing supervisor respond to the nurse who does not
want to care for Jeff ? ✔️Ans - I understand you want to protect your
children. Please tell me your concerns about taking care of patient with
HIV.
What statement shows that Jeff understands why he is at risk for TB?
✔️Ans - My T-helper cells are diminished from HIV and those cells are
needed to fight HIV.
