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Practical Nurse NCLEX®

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Infection Control

Isolation Precautions

MRSA Wound Colonization · L1

How this exercise works

Match the diagnosis or situation to the correct transmission-based precaution (contact, droplet, airborne) plus standard precautions.

Fundamental concept

Standard precautions, isolation categories, and hand hygiene from authoritative CDC guidance.

Read: Infection Prevention & CDC Transmission Precautions →

Scenario

A client admitted from a long-term care facility has a chronic wound culture positive for MRSA. The client is alert, afebrile, with no respiratory symptoms.

A client admitted from a long-term care facility has a chronic wound culture positive for MRSA. The client is alert, afebrile, with no respiratory symptoms.

Which precaution category applies?