A Student Nurse on a Medical-Surgical Floor Is Caring for a 62-Year-Old

question 35

Multiple Choice

A student nurse on a medical-surgical floor is caring for a 62-year-old previously healthy female. The patient has been admitted for an infectious disease work-up. She has been experiencing generalized pain and nausea for the past three weeks, and recently developed a fever. The student nurse prepares to assist the RN in collecting blood for the following lab tests: complete blood count (CBC) , C-reactive protein (CRP) , eosinophil sedimentation rate (ESR) , blood culture, urine culture, and a lumbar puncture with cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) culture and cell count. The nurse is also collecting a sputum culture, as well as a respiratory PCR by nasopharyngeal suction.
-The patient's CRP is markedly elevated.What does this indicate? 

• A)An elevated CRP is a highly sensitive urinary tract infection marker.
• B)An elevated CRP points to inflammation from any of a variety of sources.
• C)An elevated CRP is diagnostic of a fungal infection.
• D)An elevated CRP is diagnostic of a bacterial infection.

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