Community / public health nursing · practice question

The community health nurse at a public health clinic is being evaluated for community health nursing and communicable disease reporting. Assessment data include a neighborhood screening event identifies multiple clients with blood pressure above 180/100 mm Hg. Which infection-prevention action is essential?

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Wear gloves only and skip hand hygiene when leaving the room.Perform hand hygiene and apply the transmission-based precautions indicated by the client's diagnosis.Use sterile technique for all routine hygiene regardless of diagnosis.Skip precautions if the client has no fever.

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B. Perform hand hygiene and apply the transmission-based precautions indicated by the client's diagnosis.

Why

Infection control matches the pathogen route: hand hygiene plus appropriate precautions for contact, droplet, or airborne transmission.

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