A Nurse Is Concerned About Caring for Three Postoperative Clients

question 17

Multiple Choice

A nurse is concerned about caring for three postoperative clients and one client with an infectious disease. The nursing manager educates the nurse about the most effective way to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, which is to

• A) care for the postoperative clients first, and then see the infected client.
• B) place the infected client in the appropriate isolation.
• C) practice appropriate hand-washing and sanitation.
• D) transfer the infected client to a private room at the end of the hallway.

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Definitions:

Marginal Decision Rule

A principle used in economics and decision-making that recommends comparing the additional benefits of a decision or action to its additional costs.

Downward Sloping

Characteristic of a graph indicating that as one variable increases, the other variable decreases, common in demand curves.

Demand

The quantity of a particular good or service that consumers are willing and able to purchase at various prices.

Demand Curve

A graph showing the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity demanded by consumers at those prices.