A Nurse Notes That the Initial Preliminary Report on One

question 207

Multiple Choice

A nurse notes that the initial preliminary report on one of three blood cultures for a patient with idiopathic fever is positive for coagulase-negative staphylococci.The nurse should relate this finding to the:

• A)Need for placing the patient in isolation
• B)Possibility of contamination by skin flora during the specimen collection
• C)Presence of a serious resistant infection due to a resistant organism
• D)Use of a chlorhexidine scrub prior to the blood culture

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