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The home health nurse during an initial home visit is being evaluated for community health nursing and disaster preparedness. Assessment data include three families report similar gastrointestinal symptoms after a community meal. Which infection-prevention action is essential?

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Skip precautions if the client has no fever.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.Wear gloves only and skip hand hygiene when leaving the room.

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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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The home health nurse during an initial home visit is being evaluated for community health nursing and disaster preparedness. Assessment data include three families report similar gastrointestinal symptoms after a community meal. Which infection-prevention action is essential?

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