The minimum standard for infection control as established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is _______________
Fill in the blanks with correct word
standard precautions
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established standard precautions as the minimum standard for infection control. Standard precautions are used for potential contact with blood and all body fluids.
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In light of this new diagnosis, the nurse who is caring for this patient would anticipate that he will exhibit: A) Hypokalemia B) Proteinuria C) Hematuria D) Arrhythmias
The nurse places a patient in isolation. Isolation techniques have the potential to break the chain of infection by interfering with what component of the chain of infection?
A) Mode of transmission B) Agent C) Susceptible host D) Portal of entry
The nurse is assessing pupil size and reaction to light in a child with a cervical neck injury. Which cranial nerve is the nurse assessing in this patient?
A) II (optic) B) III (oculomotor) C) IV (trochlear) D) VI (abducens)
The nurse understands that when the spinal cord is injured, ischemia and edema result. How should the nurse explain to the patient the reason that the extent of injury cannot be determined for several days to a week?
1. "Tissue repair does not begin for 72 hours." 2. "The edema extends the level of injury two cord segments above and below the affected level." 3. "Neurons need time to regenerate, so stating the extent of injury early is not predictive of how the patient progresses." 4. "Necrosis of gray and white matter does not occur until days after the injury."