Question

While a health care facility is having a disaster drill, a nursing instructor asks a nursing student to apply dressings to wounds of patients who were injured in an earthquake. The nursing instructor finds only a few gloves and an empty bottle of sanitizer in the medical kit. Which instructions should be given by the nursing instructor? "Assess whether the patient is allergic to latex by asking them." "Use Standard Precautions while dressing the patients’ wounds." "Wash your hands with soap and water because we don’t have sanitizer." "Don’t wear the gloves while giving injections, because we have very few gloves." "You can reuse gloves for dressing the wounds of multiple patients as long as there is no fluid on the gloves."

Answer 1

Mientras que un centro de atención médica está teniendo un simulacro de desastre, un instructor de enfermería le pide a un estudiante de enfermería que aplique apósitos a las heridas de los pacientes que fueron heridos en un terremoto. El instructor de enfermería encuentra sólo unos pocos guantes y una botella vacía de desinfectante en el botiquín médico. ¿Qué instrucciones debe dar el instructor de enfermería? "evaluar si el paciente es alérgico al látex preguntándole." "use las precauciones estándar mientras viste las heridas de los pacientes." "Lávate las manos con jabón