A young patient became ill with mononucleosis that she contracted from drinking out of the same glass as her boyfriend who also had the disease.

The glass, an inanimate object, has caused the indirect transmission.

The inanimate transmitter is called:

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

A nurse is using personal protective equipment (PPE) before entering the room of a patient with diarrhea and vomiting who is being treated for an intestinal infection.
The nurse most likely needs to use which combination of PPE?

The nursing intervention most likely to decrease the chance of health care-associated infections (HAIs) for a 76-year-old patient following bowel resection surgery would be to have the patient:

To prevent a urinary infection in an older adult patient who is in traction for a broken femur, the nurse would:

A patient has been diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (mad cow disease). The nurse recognizes this disease is caused by a:

A nurse is assessing a client who has an obstruction in the small intestine. Clinical manifestations that the nurse would expect include: (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)

A nurse has accidentally punctured his finger with a needle he used to give an IM injection to a client. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?

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:

An 84-year-old patient is hospitalized for an infected stasis ulcer on his ankle. The nurse is aware that this patient is at risk for a hospital-acquired infection (HAI) because the:

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: