Select the hospital patient who has the best chance of avoiding a nosocomial infection.
A) A 42-year-old patient who had abdominal surgery
B) A 35-year-old patient with a closed leg fracture
C) A 5-month-old non-breastfed infant
D) A 75-year-old patient receiving chemotherapy

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Clinical judgment is perceptive understanding of a situation based on knowledge, empirical data (data that can be observed or experienced), theory, and scientific inquiry. Clinical judgment requires a series of decisions based on changing observations and collected data. The patient with the closed leg fracture is the patient with the best chance of avoiding a nosocomial infection. The patient with abdominal surgery is at risk for contracting a hospital-acquired infection because of healing surgical wounds. The non-breastfed infant and the patient receiving chemotherapy are patients with compromised immune systems that put them at risk for a hospital-acquired infection.

Select the Hospital Patient Who Has the Best Chance of Avoiding