A nurse is providing teaching about the administration of gastrostomy tube feedings to the parents of an infant. Which of the following instructions should the nurse include?

Rationale:
A. Warm blood products prior to administration: While warming blood can prevent hypothermia during transfusion, ensuring airway patency takes priority in a trauma situation to maintain oxygenation and prevent respiratory compromise.

B. Establish a patent oral airway: Airway management is the first step in the ABCs (Airway, Breathing, Circulation) of emergency care. Securing a patent airway ensures oxygen delivery to vital organs, which is critical in a client with multiple traumatic injuries.

C. Assign the client a score on the Glasgow Coma Scale: Assessing neurological status is important, but it is secondary to establishing airway patency. A GCS score cannot help if the client is not oxygenating adequately.

D. Remove the client's clothing: Removing clothing allows a thorough assessment, but it does not take priority over securing the airway, which is essential to prevent hypoxia.

Rationale:
A. Wear a gown when providing care: A gown should always be worn when caring for a client with C. difficile to prevent contamination of the nurse’s clothing with infectious spores. This is part of contact precautions, which are essential to stop transmission via direct or indirect contact.

B. Wash hands with an alcohol-based cleaner: Alcohol-based sanitizers are ineffective against C. difficile spores. Handwashing with soap and water is required after client contact because mechanical friction is needed to remove spores from the skin.

C. Change gloves after contact with infectious material: Gloves must be changed immediately after contact with contaminated surfaces or body fluids to prevent cross-contamination.

D. Wear an N95 respirator when providing care: An N95 respirator is unnecessary for clients with C. difficile because the infection is transmitted by contact, not airborne routes. Standard and contact precautions are sufficient for infection control.

E. Remove the thermometer from the client's room for use on another client: Equipment used for a client with C. difficile should remain dedicated to that client. Sharing devices like thermometers risks spreading spores to other clients, so disposable or patient-specific equipment must be used.