A Long-Term Care Facility Is the Site of an Outbreak

Multiple Choice

A long-term care facility is the site of an outbreak of infectious diarrhea. The nurse educator has emphasized the importance of hand hygiene to staff members. The use of alcohol-based cleansers may be ineffective if the causative microorganism is identified as what?

A) Shigella
B) Escherichia coli
C) Clostridium difficile
D) Norovirus