An older adult client tells the nurse that her granddaughter has chickenpox. The client is afraid to visit because she is afraid of getting shingles from her granddaughter. What is the nurse's best response?
a. "If you already had chickenpox, you can-not get shingles."
b. "If you already had shingles, you cannot get them again."
c. "If you already had chickenpox, you can safely visit your granddaughter."
d. "Shingles is caused by a different virus than the chickenpox virus."
C
Shingles is not transmitted from a person with chickenpox. Shingles (herpes zoster) is an infec-tion that manifests later in life because of residual virus retained in the dorsal root ganglia of sensory nerves after a client has had chickenpox.
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