The Nursing Assistive Personnel (NAP)is Working on a Busy Pediatric

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The nursing assistive personnel (NAP) is working on a busy pediatric unit in a hospital.She has a cut on her hand that has not been kept covered.It hurts her to wash her hands or sanitize them,so she has been providing patient care without performing hand hygiene.Several of the patients on the pediatric unit have suffered hospital-associated infections of rotavirus.This was thought to be a result of the NAP's lack of hand hygiene.This type of disease transmission can best be described as:

• A) indirect.
• B) natural active immunity.
• C) direct.
• D) natural passive immunity.

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