Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
As an RN in a primary care office, you recently took care of a 10-year-old patient experiencing fever, chills, a stuffy nose, and a sore throat. The patient’s mother indicated that the child had been ill for the past 2 days, was eating poorly, and sleeping a great deal of the time. You swab the patient’s throat for rapid microbial analysis, suspecting the problem was due to a common pathogen.
-You come to work the next day to find the laboratory report on your patient.It concludes that the child was infected with influenza B virus.The physician has left you a message to call in a script for which medication for the child?

Question

Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
 As an RN in a primary care office, you recently took care of a 10-year-old patient experiencing fever, chills, a stuffy nose, and a sore throat. The patient’s mother indicated that the child had been ill for the past 2 days, was eating poorly, and sleeping a great deal of the time. You swab the patient’s throat for rapid microbial analysis, suspecting the problem was due to a common pathogen.
-You come to work the next day to find the laboratory report on your patient.It concludes that the child was infected with influenza B virus.The physician has left you a message to call in a script for which medication for the child?

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The child is infected with influenza B virus, and the medication of choice for this infection is oseltamivir. Amantadine and Rimantadine are used to treat influenza A virus, and acyclovir is used to treat herpes viruses.

Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question