The nurse observes the physician enter the room of a patient with pneumococcal pneumonia without donning personal protective equipment. Which response by the nurse is appropriate?

Ensure the physician washes hands after patient contact. The patient with pneumococcal pneumonia requires only standard precautions, so it is appropriate that the provider did not don PPE prior to entering the room. However, hand hygiene after patient contact is still required. Therefore, the appropriate nursing action is to ensure the physician washes the hands after patient contact. It is not appropriate to offer to bring the physician gown and gloves, report the physician, or discuss the importance of PPE because PPE is not required to enter the room of the patient with pneumococcal pneumonia.

The nurse observes the physician enter the room of a patient with...

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