A patient in the ICU has a central venous catheter in place. The patient has now become septic with no obvious cause or source of infection. Antibiotic therapy does not help resolve the sepsis
What would the nurse suspect that the patient has most likely developed?
A) Health care-associated infection (HAI)
B) Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
C) Secondary bloodstream infection
D) Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE)
Ans: A
Feedback: Health care-associated infection (HAI) is an infection not present or incubating at the time of admission to the health care setting; this term is replacing the term "nosocomial infection," which refers only to those infections acquired in a hospital
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