The client is a chronic carrier of infection. To prevent the spread of the infection to other clients or health care providers, the nurse emphasizes interventions that do which of the following?
Eliminate the reservoir
Block the portal of exit from the reservoir
Block the portal of entry into the host
Decrease the susceptibility of the host
The most effective nursing action for controlling the spread of infection includes which of the following?
Thorough hand cleansing
Wearing gloves & masks when providing direct client care
Implementing appropriate isolation precautions
Administering broad-spectrum prophylactic antibiotics
When caring for a single client during one shift, it is appropriate for the nurse to reuse which of the following personal protective equipment?
goggles
gown
surgical mask
clean gloves
After evaluating the client’s chart, the nurse concludes a 65-year-old client’s immunizations are current. What evidence supports this conclusion? ***SATA***
last tetanus booster was at age 50
receives a flu shot every year
has not received the hepatitis B vaccine
has not received the hepatitis A vaccine
The nurse determines that a field remains sterile if which of the following conditions exist?
Tips of wet forceps are held upward when held in ungloved hands
The field was set up 1 hour before the procedure.
Sterile items are kept at least 2 inches from the edge of the field.
The nurse reaches over the field rather than around the edges.
Which statement does not represent surgical asepsis?
practices that keep an area or object free of all microorganisms
practices that destroy all microorganisms & spores
includes all practices intended to confine a specific microorganism to a specific area
used for all procedures involving sterile areas of the body
What lab data would indicate an infection? ***SATA***
elevated WBC
elevated ESR
cultures of urine, blood, sputum, or other drainage
increased creatinine
