The nurse works in infection control and teaches a class to staff nurses about the ways that resistance to antibiotics can occur. The nurse evaluates that learning has occurred when the nurses make which statement?

Question

1. "Resistance to antibiotics most often occurs when physicians prescribe too many of them for elderly clients."
2. "Resistance to antibiotics can occur by the common use of them for nosocomial infections."
3. "Resistance to antibiotics most often occurs when physicians prescribe too many of them for children with ear infections."
4. "Resistance to antibiotics can occur by the prophylactic use of them for pre-operative clients."

Answer 1

Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: The use of antibiotics by physicians with elderly clients is not the major cause of antibiotic resistance.
Rationale 2: The organisms that cause nosocomial infections have most likely been treated with antibiotics, and are the most likely organisms to develop resistance to antibiotics.
Rationale 3: The use of antibiotics by physicians for children with ear infections is not the primary cause of antibiotic resistance.
Rationale 4: The prophylactic use of antibiotics does not promote antibiotic resistance.