medium · NCLEX-RN Safety and Infection Prevention and Control
A client with suspected pneumonic plague has been on appropriate antibiotic therapy for 12 hours. The family asks if they can remove their masks.
What is the nurse's best response?
- Once antibiotics have started, the risk of transmission is gone, as the next nursing response.
- Droplet precautions must continue until the client has received 48 hours of effective therapy.
- The family should never have been wearing masks as plague is only spread by fleas, for this client.
- Masks can be removed as soon as the client's fever subsides.
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