Identify the action by the public health nurse that best reduces the risk for infection of a man who now has a positive purified protein derivative (PPD) skin test and whose wife was recently diagnosed with active pulmonary tuberculosis
a. Obtain a list of names of other persons his wife has come into contact with.
b. Instruct the man that he has to remain in isolation for 1 week.
c. Begin a 6- to 12-month course of treat-ment with rifampin (Rafadin).
d. Readminister the PPD because it may be a false positive.
C
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