An acute care facility is working to decrease the risk of nosocomial infections in older patients. Which preventative action should be included?
1. Limit the sanitization of equipment.
2. Adopt aspiration precautions for dysphagia.
3. Provide antibiotics as prescribed for viral infections.
4. Insert an indwelling urinary catheter for urinary incontinence.
2. Adopt aspiration precautions for dysphagia.
Explanation: 1. Nosocomial infections are those which are acquired in an institution. Equipment should be sanitized to prevent the spread of pathogenic organisms to patients who may have weakened immune systems.
2. Nosocomial infections are those which are acquired in an institution. Using aspiration precautions with patients who have dysphagia decreases the likelihood of aspiration and the pneumonia that often results.
3. Inappropriate use of antibiotics such as prescribing antibiotics for patients who do not have demonstrated bacterial infections leads to the development of resistant strains of bacteria within the institution.
4. Inserting an indwelling urinary catheter leads to the development of urinary tract infections.
You might also like to view...
A 79-year-old female resident of an assisted living facility receives care from a community nurse on a regular basis for treatment of a chronic venous leg ulcer
Which of the following factors would the nurse be most justified in ruling out as a contributing factor to the client's impaired wound healing? A) A lower skin collagen content than in younger adults B) Decreased fibroblast synthesis C) Slow reepithelialization D) Decreased antibody levels
Write the metric measure using official abbreviations and notation rules: fifty micrograms __________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The epidemiologic investigations into Gulf War Syndrome, which attempt to identify risk factors and the causative agent(s) and to quantify the association between exposure and outcomes are examples of
1. Analytic epidemiology. 2. Aggregate analysis epidemiology. 3. Classical epidemiology. 4. Descriptive epidemiology. 5. Experimental epidemiology.
A patient who is a full code status is found unresponsive. The nurse immediately begins CPR with the understanding that brain cells die when the brain is deprived of oxygen for more than ____________________ minute(s)
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.