A nurse manager is educating a group of nurses on biological agents that do not have a chemoprophylaxis therapy and only allows for the nurse to provide supportive care. The manager judges the teaching to be effective when the nurses can state:
a. "Anthrax is one of these biological agents.".
b. "The plague is one of these biological agents.".
c. "Smallpox is one of these biological agents.".
d. "Botulism is one of these biological agents.".
D
Botulism is the only CDC Level A biological agent that has no known therapy or treatment. Be-cause of the toxin that is released from the bacterium, there is methodology known to minimize or reduce the activation and metabolism of the toxin that causes flaccid paralysis within the pa-tient. Standard isolation precautions are used for anthrax. Plague can be treated with antibiotics and droplet isolation precautions. For smallpox, droplet precautions are recommended, especially if pocks develop outside the buccal cavity.
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