Which is the nurse's best response to an older adult client who is hesitant to take the pneumo-coccal vaccination and influenza vaccine in the same year?
a. "You need both injections. A risk factor for getting pneumonia is infection with influenza."
b. "Take both injections. They will protect you against respiratory problems for this year."
c. "The flu shot may protect you against in-fluenza but not against bacteria that cause pneumonia."
d. "You should get the pneumococcal vac-cination so you won't infect other people."
C
Although influenza can lead to pneumonia, and preventing influenza with a flu shot reduces the risk for a secondary pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia can be acquired without influenza as a pre-cipitating event and can be life threatening. Getting both injections will not protect the client from respiratory problems, nor will it prevent the client from being infectious to other people.
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