NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
PAEDIATRIC NURSING
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Question
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A nurse is preparing to teach about communicable diseases. During which of the following stages is the period in which a disease is contagious?
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Communicability period
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Convalescent period
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Incubation period
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Prodromal period
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -To cause disease, a pathogen must successfully achieve four steps or stages of pathogenesis: exposure (contact), adhesion (colonization), invasion, and infection.
Detailed explanation-2: -The natural history of an untreated communicable disease has four stages: stage of exposure, stage of infection, stage of infectious disease, and stage of outcome.
Detailed explanation-3: -24-72 hours Contact with discharges from the eyes, nose, or throat of infected people, from contaminated fingers, clothing, and other articles. During the course of active infection. Persons should not attend school or child care during the acute stage.
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