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You are a RN in a primary care office is caring for a 15-year-old male with severe gastrointestinal distress. The patient reports four days of diarrhea, vomiting, and intermittent fever. A stool culture was ordered in an attempt to identify a disease-causing pathogen.

If the patient develops rabies infection, the time from the bite to the appearance of symptoms is referred to as what stage of the infection?

As an RN with the infectious disease team, you are providing an education course to new graduate nurses regarding the process of infection control and prevention.

You are a RN working at an urban low-income medical clinic when a young woman enters crying. She is 19 years old and 28 weeks pregnant with her second child. The woman reports that she woke this morning to find she was leaking milky-colored fluid vaginally. Her first child was born 6 weeks early due to premature rupture of membranes and she is worried this is happening again. You reassure the patient, explain that a vaginal speculum exam will be performed, and educate her about specimens that will be collected. Once the proper specimens are obtained and appropriately labeled, the wet mount and culturette are sent to the laboratory for processing.

The public health department is following a 34-year-old male who has reported several weeks of general malaise and a low-grade fever. The nurse assigned to his case communicates with the patient regarding the results of his laboratory testing.

You are a RN at an elementary school and notice a second grade female scratching and pulling at her pants. The student complains that her buttocks itch. Upon further assessment, the patient reports that the itching worsened in the morning hours. Since another child in the student’s class was recently diagnosed with Enterobius vermicularis, or pinworm infection, you contact the girl’s mother and recommends follow up with her pediatrician.

A 59-year-old female has been diagnosed with Escherichia coli infection following the consumption of contaminated meat. The patient is exhibiting a high fever, severe abdominal cramping, and diarrhea. As the patients RN, you provide supportive care and fluid resuscitation as ordered. You and medical team members provide education to the patient and her family regarding the genetics of the E. coli bacterium.

After staining, the specimen is inspected. The laboratory technician identifies single-celled organisms that possess a nucleus, and many of them are undergoing the process of budding. Based on this finding, it is most likely that the patient is suffering from an infection caused by a ______.

A viral genome is carried by _____.

The laboratory report shows that a motility test was performed on the sample with positive results. Thinking about bacterial movement, you are aware that this bacterium could possess which structure(s) for motility?