Exam 22: Standard Precautions and Isolation

A nurse observes a certified nursing assistant (CNA)wearing one pair of gloves when taking vital signs on all assigned clients.What action should the nurse take immediately?

A labor and delivery nurse is assisting a health care provider who will be artificially rupturing a client's membranes (AROM).What barrier devices must the health care provider wear?

Which of these approaches should a nurse take when caring for a client placed on isolation precautions?

A nurse is caring for a client who has active tuberculosis.What barrier precautions will the nurse wear when in the client's room?

A client who has sustained extensive burns will require what type of isolation precautions?

A client with pneumonia has a repeat chest X-ray in the radiology department.The nurse places which of the following on the client for transport?

When following Standard Precautions while serving a client's meal tray,which personal protection equipment should be worn?

When following Standard Precautions,which personal protection equipment should be worn while giving eye care to a client?

When a client is admitted to a health care facility,the client will automatically be placed on which type of isolation precautions?

The nurse's responsibility in reducing the client's risk for infection includes which of the following? (Select all that apply. )

A client who has a major abscess on the thigh is on isolation precautions in a private room after surgical debridement.The physician changes the dressing each day.What barrier precautions should the nurse wear when providing care to this client?

A nurse is providing morning care to a client whose infected wound must be redressed.Which of these actions is correct?

Which of these statements about the Guideline for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals revised in 1996 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)is TRUE?

When client care equipment is soiled with blood,body fluids,secretions,or excretions,nurses can avoid contaminating their skin,mucous membranes,and clothing by doing which of the following? (Select all that apply. )

The family of a client who has tuberculosis keeps leaving the isolation room door open.They tell the nurse the client "feels closed in." The client is in a private room with monitored negative air pressure.Which of these actions should the nurse take immediately?

When following Standard Precautions,which personal protection equipment should be worn while attempting to control bleeding?