Brenda is an assistive nursing personnel working on a busy pediatric unit in a hospital. She has a cut on her hand that has not been kept covered
It hurts her to wash her hands or sanitize them, so she has been providing patient care without performing hand hygiene. Several of the patients on the pediatric unit have suffered hospital associated infections of rotavirus. This was thought to be a result of Brenda's lack of hand hygiene. This type of disease transmission can best be described as __________ transmission. A. indirect
B. lateral
C. direct
D. vertical
C
Hands of health care workers often transmit microorganisms. This mode of transmission is called direct transmission.
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The nurse should anticipate that a patient diagnosed with spastic bladder dysfunction may be prescribed which of the following medications that will help decrease detrusor muscle tone and increase bladder capacity? Select all that apply
A) Ditropan (Oxybutynin), an antimuscarinic drug B) Detrol LA (tolterodine tartrate), an antimuscarinic drug C) Uroxatral (alfuzosin), an ?-adrenergic antagonist D) Flomax (tamsulosin), an ?-blocker E) Bactrim (sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim), antibiotics
A nurse is caring for a patient who has undergone an open abdominal surgery. The nurse notes that the patient will only drink warm liquids. The patient tells the nurse, "The cold liquids will make my condition worse."
What response by the nurse best demonstrates cultural humility? 1. "The cold liquids will not make your condition worse." 2. "The warm liquids will not make your condition better." 3. "Can you tell me why the cold liquids will make your condition worse?" 4. "Can you tell me why you do not follow the health provider's suggestion?"
The nurse explains that the person responsible for verifying that the consent form is signed and that the surgical site is marked is the:
a. scrub nurse. b. surgeon. c. anesthesiologist. d. circulating nurse.
How has requiring proof of citizenship for all Medicaid recipients caused a problem for these clients?
a. Additional paperwork always increases workload and costs for agencies. b. Citizens are not accustomed to having to prove they are citizens and may not have appropriate documentation immediately available. c. Many low-income people do not have driver's licenses or birth certificates immediately available with which to prove citizenship. d. Most agencies recognize that immigration status has no bearing on a client's need for Medicaid assistance.