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Your job is working in the administration of a large hospital. Your job title is

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Question

Your job is working in the administration of a large hospital. Your job title is Safety Officer and your duties include instituting procedures and protocols to protect patients from nosocomial infections.

Read about this type of infection here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital-acquired_infection

You come across a study, revealing that neckties are a potential fomite for hospital acquired infections.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612704/

Not too long after this, a doctor makes you aware of a study showing that stethoscopes can suffer from the same problems.

http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(14)00070-6/pdf

You have been tasked to figure out how to avoid these potential sources of infection.

After considering all the options to limit spread of disease by ties, which policy are you most likely to institute?

Ties must be sterilized in a chemiclave every day

Ties must be autoclaved once a week

Ties must be changed between patients

Ties are banned from the hospital

Your job is working in the administration of a large hospital. Your job title is Safety Officer and your duties include instituting procedures and protocols to protect patients from nosocomial infections.

Read about this type of infection here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital-acquired_infection

You come across a study, revealing that neckties are a potential fomite for hospital acquired infections.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612704/

Not too long after this, a doctor makes you aware of a study showing that stethoscopes can suffer from the same problems.

http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(14)00070-6/pdf

You have been tasked to figure out how to avoid these potential sources of infection.

Explanation / Answer

After considering all the options to limit spread of disease by ties, which policy are you most likely to institute?

D) Ties are banned from the hospital