A public health nurse is providing education on antiviral medications to a group of medical-surgical nurses. Which statement by one of the nurses about non-HIV antiviral drugs best demonstrates understanding?
a. "The advances made with antiviral drugs in the past decade surpass those made with antibacterial antibiotics."
b. "These medications are active against a narrow spectrum of viruses."
c. "As a rule, antiviral drugs are safer than antibiotic agents."
d. "Clinically useful antivirals suppress the host cell's biologic processes."
ANS: B
Non-HIV antiviral drugs are active against a narrow spectrum of viruses.
Advances in antibiotics have kept pace or surpassed those made with antivirals.
These drugs are not safer than antibiotics, nor do they suppress the host cell's biologic processes.
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