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Which staffing measure is advised for patients with vaccine-preventable airborne diseases?
ANon-immune personnel should not care for them where possible
BOnly newly recruited personnel should be assigned to them
CPersonnel should rotate off the case every second day
DImmune personnel should double-glove for every contact
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Non-immune personnel should not care for them where possible
1. Measles, chickenpox and smallpox are vaccine-preventable airborne diseases.
2. Whenever possible, personnel who are not immune should not be assigned to care for those patients.
3. Immunity in the caregiver removes the risk that the caregiver both falls ill and carries the agent onward.
4. Rotating staff or double-gloving does nothing about an agent that travels in the air and is met by immunity or a respirator.
_Source: CDC Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings (2007), Part III, section III.B.3. Airborne precautions_
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