The nurse is visiting a patient who lives in a single-room occupancy hotel. The patient requires wound care and medication management. There is no running water in the room, and the bathroom down the hall is in disrepair and filthy
The patient's room is not clean. What supplies would be essential for the nurse to bring with him when visiting this client?
a. All wound care supplies needed for the duration of the care
b. Reclosable plastic bags for disposal of old dressings
c. Small, biohazard sharps container to be left in the room
d. Waterless, antibacterial hand sanitizer solution
D
The nurse should use a waterless antibacterial hand sanitizer in place of soap and water because there is no sink and conditions are filthy. The nurse should limit the supplies brought into the home if the conditions are not clean. Wound care supplies, for example, would be ordered and kept in the home. Old dressings should be double-bagged to prevent leakage, and discarded in the home. There is no evidence that a sharps disposal container is needed.
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