H.K. asks you about the isolation precautions. "Does this mean I have something bad?" What
is your best answer?
a. "These are precautions that we use for every patient who has surgery."
b. "These precautions prevent the spread of the infection to other patients and to health care
personnel."
c. "These are precautions we are taking to help your infection get better."
d. "This is an extremely serious infection; these precautions will keep the infection from
getting worse."
b
Contact precautions are implemented to prevent the spread of the causative organism to other
patients and to health care workers. They do not affect the patient's infection either by helping it get
better or by preventing it from getting worse, and they are not used on every patient who has surgery.
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Prior to the instructor's measuring blood pressure, the nurse should do which of the following to improve accuracy? 1. Have the instructor apologize to the client for repeated cuff inflation. 2. Have the client pump his fist to improve volume of Korotkoff's sounds. 3. Move the cuff to the other arm. 4. Have the client elevate his arm.
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