Exam 17: Infection Prevention and Control in the Hospital and Home

A patient has a nursing diagnosis of Infection, related to inadequate primary defenses, as evidenced by surgical incision and intravenous (IV) line access. An appropriate nursing intervention for this patient is to:

The nurse recognizes a break in aseptic technique when:

Differences between Airborne and Droplet Precautions include which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

A patient who has active primary tuberculosis is placed on Airborne Precautions. In addition to observing Standard Precautions for this patient, the nurse expects that:

A patient is discharged home with a draining wound that was infected and for which he was on Contact Precautions while in the hospital. He lives at home with his 48-year-old wife and their 17-year-old daughter. It is most important to emphasize to this patient that:

A patient is hospitalized with suspected disseminated zoster (varicella). The nurse should anticipate that this patient will be placed on:

A nurse caring for a ventilator-dependent patient will incorporate which of the following best practices recommended by the IHI into the care plan, to reduce the incidence of health acquired infections (HAIs)?

The correct way to handle soiled linens in the room of a patient who is on Contact Precautions is for the nurse to:

The patient for whom the nurse should observe Contact Precautions in addition to Standard Precautions would be diagnosed with:

When the nurse is explaining Tier 2 as developed by the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committees (HICPAC), the nurse will emphasize that the purpose of Tier 2 is to:

The nurse performing a surgical scrub is aware that the average time for the scrub is:

A nurse is caring for a patient who is in isolation. The nurse would correctly do which of the following?

The nurse is instructing one of the facility's unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) about how to correctly use a sharps container. The nurse recognizes that further instruction is warranted when the UAP states, "I will:

A nurse is caring for a patient in protective isolation for extreme immunosuppression. Before entering the room, which of the following actions should the nurse take? (Select all that apply.)

When the patient complains of vague symptoms of malaise and fatigue and has a low-grade fever, but has no other specific signs of illness, the nurse suspects that this patient is in the prodromal phase of infection (the time immediately before the illness is diagnosed). The nurse should include in the plan of care to:

The most contagious stage of infection is the ________________ period.

The nurse cautions that a person in the incubation period of an infection:

The most effective part of infection control to reduce the incidence of health care-associated infections (HAIs) is to:

An 84-year-old patient is hospitalized for an infected stasis ulcer on his ankle. The nurse is aware that this patient is at risk for a hospital-acquired infection (HAI) because the:

The nursing intervention most likely to decrease the chance of health care-associated infections (HAIs) for a 76-year-old patient following bowel resection surgery would be to have the patient: