A Patient About to Begin Therapy with Etanercept Has a Positive

question 4

Multiple Choice

A patient about to begin therapy with etanercept has a positive tuberculin skin test. A chest radiograph is negative. The nurse will expect this patient to:

• A) begin taking antituberculosis drugs at the beginning of treatment with etanercept.
• B) have periodic chest radiographs during treatment with etanercept.
• C) have regular monitoring of symptoms to detect active tuberculosis.
• D) undergo tuberculosis treatment prior to beginning etanercept treatment.

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Definitions:

Causation

The relationship between cause and effect, where one event (the cause) directly leads to the occurrence of another event (the effect).

Behaviour

The actions or reactions of an organism, often in response to its environment.

Behaviourism

A psychological approach that emphasizes the study of observable behavior and the role of environmental forces in shaping it, discounting mental states as primary causes of behavior.

Psychoanalytic Theory

A theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development that guides psychoanalysis, founded on the premise that unconscious forces such as unresolved conflicts from childhood shape behavior.