A nurse is walking down the unit hall and sees a blood spill on the floor.
Which of the following agents should the nurse use to sanitize the floor?

A nurse caring for a client who requires isolation has just finished a care procedure.
Which of the following pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) should the nurse remove last?

A patient is sent home with an open wound that is still infected and being treated with wet-to-dry dressing changes four times a day. Before discharge, in order to prevent infecting other family members, the nurse would teach the patient to:

The nurse is aware that the patient most at risk for a health care-associated infection (HAI) would be the:

The nurse is caring for a client with suspected appendicitis. Nursing interventions for this client would include: (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)

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 is helping the health care provider perform a sterile procedure at the bedside.

Halfway through the procedure, the nurse believes the health care provider has contaminated the sterile field.

The nurse should:

A nurse is reinforcing teaching with an assistive personnel (AP) about using personal protective equipment while caring for clients.
Which of the following statements should the nurse identify as an indication that the AP understands the instructions?

The nurse explains to the patient who has pneumococcal pneumonia that the lungs serve as the:

The nurse instructing a patient in the home use of disinfectant would include the information that the disinfectant can be used to:

The nurse using protective nonsterile gloves in the provision of patient care will wash his or her hands after removal of the gloves in order to: