Assessment Findings
Two symptoms that are more common in pneumonia but less typical in TB.
What is acute fever and pleuritic chest pain?
This test confirms TB diagnosis but take up to 6 weeks for results.
What is sputum culture for acid-fast bacilli?
This is the position a patient should be placed in to reduce aspiration risk?
What is head of bed elevated ≥30 degrees?
Patients with either pneumonia or TB must understand what about antibiotic therapy?
What is the need to complete the full course of prescribed antibiotics?
What is sepsis/septic shock?
A patient reports night sweats, weight loss, and hemoptysis. The nurse suspects which disease?
What is tuberculosis
This imaging finding is typical of bacterial pneumonia.
What is consolidation on chest x-ray?
This type of transmission precautions are required for patients with suspected or confirmed TB in the hospital.
What are airborne precautions (negative-pressure room, N95 mask/CAPR/PAPR)?
TB patients are taught that they are acutely infectious for a certain period of time after starting treatment.
What is the first two weeks of treatment?
Tuberculosis is particularly common and potentially lethal in patients with which lifelong infection?
What is HIV?
In older adults, confusion may be the only presenting sign of this disease.
What is pneumonia?
This screening test is commonly used to check for latent TB test especially in health care workers.
What is the tuberculin skin test (TST) or Mantoux test?
These two nurse-driven interventions are essential for pneumonia patients receiving oxygen therapy.
What is monitor SpO2 and encourage coughing/deep breathing?
What is pneumococcal vaccine or influenza vaccine?
This systemic complication is more common in TB than in pneumonia.
What is spread to other organs (via the lymph system)?