Nursing Management: HIV and AIDS Exam Questions With Verified Answers
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Nursing Management: HIV and AIDS Exam
Questions With Verified Answers
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - answeris defined as the most severe form of a continuum of
illnesses associated with the retroviral human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
Primary infection is associated with... - a...
Nursing Management: HIV and AIDS Exam
Questions With Verified Answers
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - answer✔is defined as the most severe form of a continuum of
illnesses associated with the retroviral human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
Primary infection is associated with... - answer✔High levels of HIV in the blood are accompanied by
dramatic drops in CD4 + T-cell counts, normally between 500 and 1,500 cells/ mm3.
HIV asymptomatic - answer✔> 500 CD4 + T lymphocytes/ mm3
HIV symptomatic - answer✔200 to 499 CD4 + T lymphocytes/ mm3
AIDS - answer✔< 200 CD4 + T lymphocytes/ mm3
What are the risk factors for acquiring HIV? - answer✔- High-risk behaviors such as sexual intercourse
with an HIV-infected partner or injection drug use
• Blood transfusion or blood products contaminated with HIV
• Children born to mothers with HIV infection, breastfed infants of HIV-infected mothers
• Health care workers exposed to needle-stick injury or transmucosal contamination from an infected
patient
• Potentially infected body fluids, including blood, seminal fluid, vaginal secretions, amniotic fluid, and
breast milk
• Estrogen and progesterone may increase a woman's risk for HIV infection through changes in the
cervical mucosa.
What are the respiratory manifestations of HIV? - answer✔Dyspnea, cough, chest pain, and fever
What are the GI manifestations of HIV? - answer✔- Anorexia, nausea, and vomiting
• Oral and esophageal candidiasis or thrush
- Chronic diarrhea - causing profound weight loss, fluid and electrolyte imbalances, perianal skin
excoriation, weakness, and inability to perform activities of daily living
What are the S/S of wasting syndrome (cachexia)? - answer✔- Multifactorial protein- energy
malnutrition;
- Profound involuntary weight loss
- Either chronic diarrhea for more than 30 days or chronic weakness and documented intermittent or
constant fever with no concurrent illness
• Anorexia, diarrhea, gastrointestinal (GI) malabsorption, lack of nutrition
What are the oncologic manifestations of patients with AIDS? - answer✔- Kaposi's sarcoma -- is the most
common
- B-cell lymphomas - second most common
What are the neurologic manifestations of AIDS? - answer✔- HIV encephalopathy
- HIV-associated dementia
- HIV-related peripheral neuropathy
What are the symptoms of HIV encephalopathy? - answer✔memory deficits
headache
difficulty concentrating
progressive confusion
psychomotor slowing
apathy
ataxia
global cognitive impairments
delayed verbal responses
a vacant stare
spastic paraparesis
hyperreflexia
psychosis
hallucinations
tremor
incontinence
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