Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question

question 35

Multiple Choice

Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
A mother brings in her unimmunized, otherwise healthy, 7-year-old daughter to the pediatric office where you are the charge nurse. The child has nearly 100 lesions all over her body, mainly localized to her trunk. Most of the lesions are vesicular, but a few have scabbed over. According to the mother, her daughter broke out in this rash about 5 days ago. She never experienced a fever, but the rash seems to be incurably itchy. As the mother is telling you this, you see her daughter itch open one of the vesicles, revealing a clear fluid.
-The mother demands antibiotics to treat her daughter's infection.How will you best respond to her request?

• A)Advocate that the physician should write a prescription for oral amoxicillin,because the mother always knows best.
• B)Inform the mother that she is not a trained professional and should not be advising medical staff on proper treatments.
• C)Tell the mother she can purchase a triple-antibiotic ointment over the counter to apply to all lesions three times daily.
• D)Inform the mother that chickenpox is caused by a virus and does not respond to antibiotics,but is self-limiting and will heal on its own.

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Definitions:

Tactile Hallucination

The false perception of physical touch or sensation on the skin without any physical cause.

Somatic Hallucination

False perceptions or sensations in the body that have no physical source, such as feeling insects crawling on the skin.

Auditory Hallucination

An experience involving hearing sounds, usually voices, that are not present in external reality.

Olfactory Hallucination

A form of hallucination involving the perception of smells that are not present in the environment.