Influenza precautions???

Altra, BSN, RN · Jul 13, 2005

The textbook answer would probably be droplet precautions.

KaliNurse · Jul 14, 2005

A friend of mine just got out of her NCLEX (with 85 questions) and she KEPT getting precautionary measure questions relating to patients with influenza. (She swears it was around 8 questions!!) We both cannot find any of the answers in any of our books, maybe its just common sense and were both to spacy to figure it out? Any clues guys????

This should hopefully answer your question. I had the same question in the Kaplan course. Haemophilus influenza requires STANDARD precautions. It is found in the throats of healthy people and requires only standard precautions. However, influenza is highly contagious and requires DROPLET precautions because it is a contagious infection of the respiratory tract. I totally understand what you are asking. It does get confusing, but that is the difference between those two kinds of influenza. Remember the difference. I'm sure you will encounter it sometime, if not on the boards, then definitely in real situations. Best of luck!!!!

Someonescupcake · Jul 14, 2005

A friend of mine just got out of her NCLEX (with 85 questions) and she KEPT getting precautionary measure questions relating to patients with influenza. (She swears it was around 8 questions!!) We both cannot find any of the answers in any of our books, maybe its just common sense and were both to spacy to figure it out? Any clues guys????

I took mine yesterday and it shut off at 86.... good luck..Beth

atlanta · Jul 14, 2005

This should hopefully answer your question. I had the same question in the Kaplan course. Haemophilus influenza requires STANDARD precautions. It is found in the throats of healthy people and requires only standard precautions. However, influenza is highly contagious and requires DROPLET precautions because it is a contagious infection of the respiratory tract. I totally understand what you are asking. It does get confusing, but that is the difference between those two kinds of influenza. Remember the difference. I'm sure you will encounter it sometime, if not on the boards, then definitely in real situations. Best of luck!!!!

Well.... I just read the Kaplan Q bank... I swear the answer is that Haemophilus influenza is on DROPLET precation....

but the pt. has PNEUMONIA caused by haemophilus influenza...

It is probably because of pneumonia that the DROPLET precuation is required.

Nurse Ratched, RN · Jul 14, 2005

I'm guessing "wash your paws" wasn't an option .

Bird2 · Jul 14, 2005

You might want to go to the Centers of Disease Control site and check this out. They are the experts. http://www.cdc.gov

jaeldanielle · Mar 4, 2010

i know this is an old thread, but i am still so confused re H. influenza. i did go to the cdc website and printed out a great pdf file on transmission-based protocols. sometimes H. influenza is droplet and sometimes standard. very very very confusing to me. don't want to fail on that.

caliotter3 · Mar 4, 2010

Well, if the expert, CDC, gives two answers, I would just read the question carefully and go with my gut. You can't get too wrapped around the axle with these questions. Just go on to the next one.

jaeldanielle · Mar 4, 2010

i guess you're right, but i think you could fail on transmission-based protocol questions, because they are critical to nursing. and some of them are just plain tricky. like sometimes an infection is droplet during the first 24 hrs and then becomes contact or standard. or sometimes it's contact for children and standard for adults. and if the question stem doesn't specify??

the H. Influenza stumps me because some say it's standard BUT Influenza is droplet. argh!