A patient was transferred to a long-term care setting with an undiagnosed case o

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A patient was transferred to a long-term care setting with an undiagnosed case of scabies ( a skin parasite). This patients arrival caused an outbreak of scabies at the rehabilitation facility. To treat the outbreak the rehabilitation facility isolated the patients, researched the treatment options, and decided togive treatment to all patient to deter the outbreak from spreading based on the setting. Which evidence-based practice was used in this situation? Please explain the answer in detail. 1) Ensuring other patients were not affected. 2) Profiding skin care treatment for patients in isolataion. 3) isolating all potentially infected patients in the area. 4) Communicating the information to local agancies.

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Solution:- 1) Ensuring other patients were not affected.

Elderly and weakened people in nursing homes and similar institutional settings may harbor scabies without showing significant itching or visible signs. In such cases, there can be widespread epidemics among patients and health-care workers.

Avoiding close personal contact with infested people can prevent scabies. Sexual contacts and household members of people who develop scabies can be treated as soon as the condition is identified so that they will not develop the signs or symptoms of the condition. The treatment for these exposed people is the same as the treatment of the infected individual.

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