Infection Control NCLEX 2020 - With Verified Grade A Answers

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Which of the following events would require a nurse to complete and file an incident report? • When a visitor suddenly becomes weak and dizzy, the nurse checks the visitor's blood pressure and take... s the visitor to the emergency department for treatment. 2. A nurse, charting the administration of medications to an assigned client at 9 pm, notes that atenolol (Tenormin) was prescribed to be administered at 9 am instead of 9 pm. The nurse checks the client’s vital signs, completes an incident report, and calls the physician to report the error. The physician tells the nurse that an incident report is not needed but instructs her to monitor the client during the night for hypotension. What action should the nurse take? • Telling the physician that the error warrants the completion of an incident report 3. Contact precautions are initiated for a client with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. The nurse, providing instructions to a nursing assistant about caring for the client, tells the assistant: • To wear gloves and a gown when changing the client's bed linen. 4. The mother of a 3-year-old calls a neighbor who is a nurse and reports that her child just drank some window cleaner that had been stored in a cabinet. The nurse should instruct the mother to immediately: Call a poison control center [Show More]

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