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The charge nurse on the night shift of a skilled nursing facility is orienting a new aide to the unit. The LPN’s most accurate information relative to moving patients is:

A nurse is instructing one of the facility’s unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) in ways to prevent health care–associated infections. The nurse recognizes that further instruction is warranted when the UAP states, “I will:

There are two main factors in the development of pressure ulcers. One is pressure and the other is __________.

An example of the principles of good body mechanics applied to patient care occurs when the nurse:

The most contagious stage of infection is the ________________ period.

A patient has been diagnosed with Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The nurse recognizes this disease is caused by a tick bite that infected the patient with:

When a patient in the ambulatory clinic is diagnosed as having pneumococcal pneumonia, the nurse is aware that this infection:

A young patient became ill with mononucleosis that she contracted from drinking out of the same glass as her boyfriend who also had the disease. The glass, an inanimate object, has caused the indirect transmission. The inanimate transmitter is called:

The nurse explains that the immunizations against hepatitis B will:

The nurse explains that medical asepsis differs from surgical asepsis in that medical asepsis: