The nurse is admitting a patient with a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection isolated in his stage III pressure ulcer. The nurse places the patient on:
a. contact precautions.
b. airborne precautions.
c. droplet precautions.
d. protective environment.
A
Contact precautions (direct patient or environmental contact) is used for patients with colonization or infection with multidrug-resistant organisms such as VRE and MRSA, Clostridium difficile, shigella, and other enteric pathogens; major wound infections; herpes simplex; scabies; varicella zoster (disseminated); or respiratory syncytial virus in infants, young children, or immunocompromised adults. Airborne precautions (droplet nuclei smaller than 5 microns) are used for patients who have measles; chickenpox (varicella); disseminated varicella-zoster; pulmonary or laryngeal tuberculosis. Droplet precautions (droplets larger than 5 microns; being within 3 feet of the patient) is used for patients with diphtheria (pharyngeal), rubella, streptococcal pharyngitis, pneumonia or scarlet fever in infants and young children, pertussis, mumps, Mycoplasma pneumonia, meningococcal pneumonia or sepsis, or pneumonic plague. A protective environment is used to protect patients receiving allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants.
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