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A community health nurse investigates an outbreak of pinworm at a local day care center. In or-der to minimize the spread of infection, which of the following suggestions would the nurse pro-vide to the day care workers?
 
  a. Close the day care until all surfaces are cleaned.
  b. No action is necessary because it is easily treated with oral vermicides.
  c. Using good hand washing is important to prevent the transmission.
  d. Every child in the day care should be treated because they all are probably in-fected.
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ANS: C
Transmission of pinworm occurs through the fecal-oral route, so good hand washing after toilet-ing is essential. It is not necessary to treat all children or close the day care. It is necessary that action be taken, as without any action being taken, the pinworm outbreak will continue.
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