The nurse admits the client to the emergency department from a motor vehicle accident and the nurse sustains an accidental needle stick injury while performing a venipuncture on the client. What is the nurse's priority?
1. Determine whether the needle was sterile.
2. Follow agency policy for employee injuries.
3. Inform provider to screen client for antibodies.
4. Obtain client history of communicable diseases.
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2. The nurse's priority after a needle-stick injury is obtaining immediate treatment as outlined in agency policy. The nurse needs baseline testing, and depending on the client's history and testing results, preventive treatments are available.
1. The needle cannot be sterile after a venipuncture.
3 and 4. The nurse's priority is the nurse and receiving prompt treatment; informing the provider and gathering subjective data is secondary in importance.
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