Tuberculosis Today: Fighting an Ancient Adversary
Expiration Date: December 31, 2009. No CE contact hours (CH) will be given after this date.
Purpose: To provide registered nurses information to help them better care for patients with tuberculosis
Objectives:
- Identify the signs and symptoms of tuberculosis (TB).
- Describe how TB is diagnosed.
- Compare latent TB with active TB.
- Describe the care of patients with TB.
Read the article[PDF], then click on the link below to take the test.
Author
When the article was written, Rebecca Ruppert, RN, was a Communicable Disease RN in the Tuberculosis
Program of the Marion County Health Department in Salem, Oregon. The author does not have any financial arrangements or affiliations with any corporations offering financial support or educational grants for continuing nursing education activities.
1.5 contact hours are provided by ANA.
The American Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP6178.
