A Nurse Notes That the Initial Preliminary Report on One

Multiple Choice

A nurse notes that the initial preliminary report on one of three blood cultures for a patient with idiopathic fever is positive for coagulase-negative staphylococci.The nurse should relate this finding to the:

A) Need for placing the patient in isolation
B) Possibility of contamination by skin flora during the specimen collection
C) Presence of a serious resistant infection due to a resistant organism
D) Use of a chlorhexidine scrub prior to the blood culture