Which does the nurse use as the purpose of preoperative surgical scrub?
1. Eliminate the skin's normal flora
2. Sterilize the skin of surgical team
3. Decrease the microorganism count
4. Impair microorganism reproduction
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3. The goal of the surgical hand scrub is to decrease the number of microorganisms on the skin's surface to decrease the client's risk of infection.
1. The scrub reduces the number microorganisms of the skin's normal flora.
2. Sterilizing the skin is impossible.
4. The scrub's purpose is bactericidal.
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