The Contact-Room Threshold Call
Choose the correct room-entry action when contact isolation adds to standard precautions.
Room-entry pressure: the cart is clean, the room is not, and the task feels quick. What should Lina do before she crosses the threshold? Pause, perform hand hygiene, check the posted precaution, don the required gown and gloves, and use dedicated or disinfected equipment. Correct. This treats the room boundary as a contamination boundary and applies transmission-based precautions on top of standard precautions. Enter quickly without PPE because taking a blood pressure is brief and does not involve body fluids. Weaker. Contact transmission can happen through skin, sleeves, bed rails, cuffs, and hands even when the task is short and…
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