You are the nurse caring for a young mother who has multiple sclerosis. She was admitted to your unit with a postpartum infection 3 days ago. You are planning to discharge her home when she has finished 5 days of IV antibiotic therapy

Question

What information would it be important for you to provide this patient with?
A) The information pertaining to a postpartum infection and multiple sclerosis
B) How the inflammatory process differs in patients with multiple sclerosis
C) The same information you would provide to a patient without a chronic condition
D) Information on how IV antibiotics affect multiple sclerosis

Answer 1

Ans: C

Feedback: Patients with disabilities are in need of the same information as other patients; however, they often require large print, Braille, audiotapes, or the assistance of a sign interpreter. In this instance, option A is incorrect because postpartum infections do not occur because the mother has multiple sclerosis so there would be no specific information that would be necessary to give to this patient. A postpartum infection is not an inflammatory process, it is an infectious process. IV antibiotics affect people with multiple sclerosis the same as they affect other patients.