Identify the Action by the Public Health Nurse That Best

Multiple Choice

Identify the action by the public health nurse that best reduces the risk for infection of a man who now has a positive purified protein derivative (PPD) skin test and whose wife was recently diagnosed with active pulmonary tuberculosis.

A) Obtain a list of names of other persons his wife has come into contact with.
B) Instruct the man that he has to remain in isolation for 1 week.
C) Begin a 6- to 12-month course of treatment with rifampin (Rafadin) .
D) Readminister the PPD because it may be a false positive.