Student nurses are taught to look at all patients as infected or colonized with microorganisms without showing any signs or symptoms of infection
The student nurses are further taught to implement precautions in the delivery of patient care. This practice is referred to as the implementation of what?
A) Universal Precautions
B) Standard Precautions
C) Transmission-Based Precautions
D) Contact Precautions
Ans: B
Feedback: Standard Precautions use the practice and belief that all patients are colonized or infected with microorganisms without signs or symptoms. Universal Precautions were designed solely to prevent blood-borne infections. Body Substance Isolation was designed to prevent transmission of pathogens from moist body substances. Transmission-Based Precautions furthers Standard Precautions to include organisms so contagious or epidemiologically significant.
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