[Expert Solution]: In a community setting, a patient was…

In a community setting, a patient was prescribed antibiotics after presenting with respiratory symptoms that were believed to be due to a bacterial pneumonia. The patient returns to the clinic after 4 days and indicates that his symptoms have not improved. Which of the following are true? Question 2 options: The patient’s symptoms are likely not improved because he has not yet completed the course of treatment, as the nurse, you should recommend he complete the treatment and send him home. The patient’s symptoms may be due to a virus and an antimicrobial will not help. However, since antibiotics were started you recommend, she should continue the initial course of treatment and come back if after the course, the symptoms do not get better. The patient’s symptoms may be due to a bacterial pathogen not common in community or an MDRO and may require a different antibiotic. As the nurse, you should speak to the physician about ordering a culture despite antibiotics and stopping or changing the initial course of treatment. The patient should stop antimicrobials as they are not working, likely because the illness is caused by a virus. If initial course of treatment is changed by the physician, the nurse should council the patient to return the remainder of his previous prescription to a pharmacy for disposal.