TB Basics
Bacteria that causes tuberculosis.
What is Mycobacterium tuberculosis?
Name one classic symptom of pulmonary TB.
What is cough, night sweats, weight loss, fever, hemoptysis?
Checks for exposure to TB.
What is a PPD skin test or Mantoux test?
A type of room a patient with TB is placed in.
Isolation precautions for a patient with TB.
What is airborne precautions?
Organ that TB primarily affects.
What is the lungs?
A symptom that often occurs at night with TB.
What is night sweats?
A blood test that can detect TB infection.
What is a Interferon-gamma release assay - IGRA or QuantiFERON?
PPE that a nurse must wear to enter a TB patient's room.
What is an N95 respirator mask?
Transmission of TB.
What is through airborne droplets?
TB that shows calcification on x-ray
What is latent TB?
A symptom that distinguishes from a common cold.
What is a long-lasting cough > 3 weeks or hemoptysis?
An image that helps confirm pulmonary TB.
What is a chest x-ray?
Mandatory teaching to a patient about completing TB medications.
What is to finish the full course to prevent resistance?
Mask that is used by staff caring for TB patient.
What is an N95 respirator?
Name one group at high risk for developing TB.
What is people with HIV, immunocompromised, homeless, immigrants from endemic countries, etc?
A symptom of TB that might be caused due to chronic inflammation and poor appetite?
What is weight loss?
A positive AFB smear indicate.
What is active TB with contagious bacteria in the sputum?
Nursing diagnosis for "Patient lacks information about TB meds?"
What is knowledge deficit?
What is a surgical mask?
Global health organization that provides TB treatment guidelines.
What is the WHO (World Health Organization)?
Name of Tb that affects organs other than the lungs.
What is extrapulmonary TB?
Number of negative sputum smears that are typically needed to discontinue airborne precautions.
What is three negative sputum smears?
What is directly observed therapy? (healthcare provider watches the patient take meds)
Agency that TB must be reported to in the U.S.
What is the local or state health department? (TB is a reportable disease)