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abarnes

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In Contact Precautions, when should you wear gloves?
 
  A) when directly touching the patient
  B) if there are blood or secretions involved
  C) when touching environmental surfaces or patient care items
  D) all of the above

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Nurses may carry an infection from work to home, or between patients, or patients may pick up germs at the hospital without knowing it and develop a disease much later. Infections of this type are called
 
  A) local infections.
  B) systemic infections.
  C) surgical site infections.
  D) health care-associated infections (HAI).


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courtney_bruh

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Reply #1 on: Jul 16, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D


abarnes

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Reply 2 on: Jul 16, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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