learning Objectives - Demonstrate skill in providing nursing care to patients with altered immune response.
Hours - 6
Teaching and Learning Activities - Lecture cum discussion Clinical case presentation
Assessment Methods - Short answer Objective type Essay type
Content of the chapter
a) Overview of normal immune system
b) Altered immune response, hypersensitivity
and allergy
c) Assessment of immune system
d) Diagnostic evaluation
e) Allergy disorders:
– Anaphylaxis
– Allergic rhinitis
– Contact dermatitis
– Atopic dermatitis
– Drug reactions
– Food allergy
– Serum sickness
– Latex allergy
f) Approaches to treatallergic diseases
g) Nursing management client with altered
immune response
h) Auto immune disease
– Rheumatoid arthritis
– SLE
– Ankylosing spondylitis
– Graft versus host disease