Identify the Action by the Public Health Nurse That Best

question 48

Multiple Choice

Identify the action by the public health nurse that best reduces the risk for infection of a man who now has a positive purified protein derivative (PPD) skin test and whose wife was recently diagnosed with active pulmonary tuberculosis.

• A)Obtain a list of names of other persons his wife has come into contact with.
• B)Instruct the man that he has to remain in isolation for 1 week.
• C)Begin a 6- to 12-month course of treatment with rifampin (Rafadin).
• D)Readminister the PPD because it may be a false positive.

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