Ch 24 PrepU- Asepsis and Infection control

The nurse is caring for a client admitted with tuberculosis (TB). What would be the best action by the nurse?

Apply a nonparticulate (N-95) respirator when entering the room.

The nurse is setting up a sterile field to perform a catheterization when the client touches the end of the sterile field. What would be the nurse's next appropriate action?

Discard the sterile field and the supplies and start over.

An experienced nurse is teaching a student nurse about the proper use of hand hygiene. Which guideline should the nurse provide to the student?

Hand hygiene is needed after contact with objects near the client.

A nurse is implementing the principles of surgical asepsis while inserting a client's indwelling urinary catheter. Which action should the nurse perform?

Hold sterile objects above waist level to prevent accidental contamination.

A nurse is caring for a client who is diagnosed with tuberculosis. Which nursing intervention promotes infection control based on nursing practice standards for safety?

The nurse places the client in a private room with monitored negative air pressure.

The nurse is preparing to perform handwashing. Place the following steps in the correct order. Use all options.

Turn on the faucet and adjust force and temperature of the water. Wet the hand and wrists. Apply soap. Wash the palms and backs of the hands for at least 20 seconds. Pat the hands dry with a paper towel. Turn the faucet off with a paper towel.

The nurse is caring for an older adult with pulmonary tuberculosis. Which precautions will the nurse begin?

airborne

For which client would the use of standard precautions alone be appropriate?

an incontinent client in a nursing home who has diarrhea

A nursing student comes to the university health center reporting a sore throat, malaise, and loss of appetite. The nurse assesses the student and determines she has large, white-yellow exudates in the back of the throat and a fever. The student is presenting with:

an infectious disease.

A client suffers from bloody diarrhea after eating contaminated food at a local restaurant. The client has been infected with a(an):

bacteria

A client with HIV is the:

carrier

When a nurse picks up a client's contaminated tissue without gloves and fails to wash the hands sufficiently, the nurse provides for the client's organisms to be spread by which type of transmission?

contact

Which personal protective equipment (PPE) should the nurse don to enter the room of a client who is diagnosed with Clostridium difficile?

gown and gloves

A nurse is working with a 55-year-old woman diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This nurse has another client that day who has an upper respiratory infection. What is the most important thing the nurse can do to prevent the client with HIV from acquiring the upper respiratory infection?

hand hygiene before and after entering a patient's room

The nurse is caring for a client who developed pneumonia while hospitalized. How will the nurse document this condition?

health care-associated infection (HCAI)

The nurse is educating a client and caregivers about recurrent infections the client has experienced. What priority intervention can the nurse include that is a first line of defense?

intact skin and mucous membranes

Upon review of a client's microbiology culture results, the nurse recognizes which organism as indicative of normal flora?

scherichia coli in the intestinal tract

The nurse manager is developing a plan to decrease the transmission of health care associated infections. What would be the best to implement?

staff education on utilizing hand hygiene

The nurse planning to insert an indwelling urinary catheter into a client should utilize which technique?

surgical asepsis

A team of nurses is caring for a client with tuberculosis. They have not been fitted for N95 respirators. How will the team proceed with care?

utilize a powered air purifying respirator (PAPR)