The nurse is setting up a sterile tray for the health care provider who will insert a central venous access device
While the nurse completes setting up the tray, the unit secretary enters the room to inform the nurse the health care provider has been delayed, and will not arrive for 15-20 minutes. Which action by the nurse is the most appropriate?
1. Sit in the room talking with the client while observing the sterile field is not contaminated.
2. Discard the sterile tray and obtain a new one to set up when the health care provider arrives.
3. Cover the sterile field with a sterile drape and set the tray out of the way for use when the health care provider arrives.
4. Leave the tray where it is and return when the health care provider arrives.
Correct Answer: 3
The nurse should cover the sterile field with a sterile drape or towel and move the tray on which the sterile field was prepared to a place where it is not likely to be bumped or touched. Although sitting in the room observing the sterile tray would be the ideal implementation, it would not be effective time management. Discarding the sterile tray would not be cost-effective, and is unnecessary. Leaving the tray uncovered would be dangerous if the nurse is not in the room because it is impossible to tell if the tray is still sterile merely by looking at it.
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