A respiratory therapist is treating all patients in the intensive care unit as if they have HIV and hepatitis. This approach is called
A. co-horting.
B. standard precautions.
C. enteric isolation.
D. patient discrimination.
Ans: B. he standard precautions (also called universal precautions) approach includes treating all patient as if they are infectious.
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