An immunocompromised patient has just been admitted to your unit with abdominal pain. The patient has AIDS and the physician has ordered an abdominal radiograph. How should the nurse safely facilitate the test?
A) Arrange for a portable x-ray machine to be used.
B) Have a patient wear a mask to the x-ray department.
C) Have the x-ray department disinfected prior to the patient arriving.
D) Send the patient to the x-ray department, and have the staff in the department mask.
Ans: A
Feedback: A patient who is immunocompromised is at an increased risk of contracting nosocomial infections due to suppressed immunity. The safest way the test can be facilitated is to have a portable x-ray machine in the patient's room.
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