A Community health nurse is giving a presentation at the elementary school PTO meeting. The nurse is going to speak about vaccines and how they work to prevent disease
A parent asks how a vaccine can protect from future exposures to diseases against which they are vaccinated. What would be the nurse's best response?
A) The vaccine causes an antibody response in the body.
B) The vaccine responds to an infection in the body after it occurs.
C) The vaccine is similar to an antibiotic that is used to treat an infection.
D) The vaccine causes the patient to be infected.
Ans: A
Feedback: Vaccines are an antigen preparation to produce an antibody response in a human to protect him or her from future exposure to the vaccinated organism. A vaccine does not respond to an infection after it occurs; it does not act like an antibiotic; and a vaccine does not cause the patient to be infected.
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