A local public health nurse is informed that a cook in a local restaurant has been diagnosed with hepatitis A
What should the nurse advise individuals who ate at this restaurant and have never received the hepatitis A vaccine?
A) The hepatitis A vaccine
B) The hepatitis B vaccine
C) The hepatitis A and B vaccines
D) An immune globulin injection
Ans: D
Feedback: For people who have not been previously vaccinated, hepatitis A can be prevented by the intramuscular administration of globulin during the incubation period, if given within 2 weeks of exposure. Administration of the hepatitis A vaccine will not protect the patient exposed to hepatitis A, as protection will take a few weeks to develop after the first dose of the vaccine. The hepatitis B vaccine provides protection again the hepatitis B virus, but plays no role in protection for the patient exposed to hepatitis A.
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