A client has been admitted to the unit with tuberculosis and has been placed in isolation. In order to protect the caregivers and other clients on the unit, the nurse would place this client in which type of isolation room?
1. Single-door room with normal airflow
2. Single-door room with positive air flow (airflows out of the room)
3. Isolation room with an anteroom and normal airflow
4. Isolation room with an anteroom and negative air flow (airflows into the room)
4. Isolation room with an anteroom and negative air flow (airflows into the room)
Rationale:
Clients with airborne infections such as meningococcemia, SARS, or TB are placed in an isolation room with an anteroom and negative pressure airflow. Air flows into the room and is vented in a special manner to prevent the organism from entering the rest of the unit. Positive flow rooms are used for those clients who are immunosuppressed so that microorganisms from the unit are not drawn into the room. Single-door isolation with normal airflow might be used for a client with droplet or wound infection. Single-door rooms are not equipped to have positive or negative airflow.
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