The nurse completes preparation of the sterile field to change a patient's dressing when the patient's dinner tray arrives. Which action should the nurse take?
a. Use the sterile field on another patient in another room.
b. Change the dressing using clean technique to save time.
c. Set the tray aside and proceed with the dressing change.
d. Cover the setup with a sterile drape and let the patient eat.
C
The nurse should set the dinner tray aside and proceed with the dressing change. Discarding the sterile setup would waste both time and money. The nurse avoids moving the sterile field to another patient's room to decrease the risk of contamination from air currents and accidental contact. The nurse should explain to the patient why the dinner tray is being set aside, efficiently finish the dressing, offer to rewarm the meal, delegate serving the tray to nursing assistive per-sonnel (NAP), and thank the patient for patience and understanding. The timing of the dressing change should be rescheduled to prevent this from happening again.
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