A nurse is changing the bed linen of a client admitted to the health care facility for the surgical repair of an inguinal hernia. Which of the following precautions should the nurse follow?
A) Standard precautions
B) Droplet precautions
C) Contact precautions
D) Airborne precautions
A
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Health care personnel follow standard precautions whenever there is the potential for contact with the client's blood; body fluids except sweat, regardless of whether they contain visible blood, nonintact skin, and mucous membranes. Standard precautions are measures for reducing the risk of microorganism transmission from both recognized and unrecognized sources of infection. The other three precautions are transmission-based precautions, which are measures for controlling the spread of infectious agents from clients known to be, or suspected of being, infected with highly transmissible or epidemiologically important pathogens.
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