While the nurse is caring for a client with a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus wound infection, the client asks the nurse what causes resistance of bacteria
The nurse's best response includes which of the following? Select all that apply. Standard Text: Select all that apply. 1. Taking antibiotics for viral infections when they have no impact
2. Failing to finish the entire course of prescribed antibiotics
3. Delayed reporting of infected wounds
4. Inadequate immune response
5. Failure to create new antibiotics in the 1980s
1,2,5
Rationale 1: Bacteria resistant to antibiotics results from misuse, abuse, and incomplete treatment with antibiotics. The bacteria that survive after inadequate antibiotic treatment learn to replicate in a way that makes them unaffected by the antibiotic, thus becoming a resistant bacteria. Delayed reporting of infections and inadequate immune response might make an infection worse and harder to treat, but this is not a factor in bacterial resistance. In the 1980s, drug companies were not developing new antibiotics which led to natural resistance of bacteria to antibiotics.
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