In taking the history of a person with hepatitis A, an appropriate question for the nurse to ask is:
a. "If using drugs, do you share needles?"
b. "Do you always practice safe sex?"
c. "Have you traveled to Canada in the last month?"
d. "Do you eat shellfish or oysters often?"
D
Shellfish and mollusks can be contaminated by living in feces-contaminated water. Drug use and unprotected sex are not part of the etiology of hepatitis A but are for hepatitis B. Travel to Cana-da is not associated with hepatitis A.
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