The nursing assistant is caring for a client in "transmission-based: contact" precautions and needs to remove the contaminated items from the room following the policy for double bagging. The clean assistant outside the room is helping. When should the nursing assistant intervene and stop the process?

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The nursing assistant inside the isolation room should intervene and stop the process when the assistant observes that the bag of contaminated items has split because if the double bagging procedure continued after this without intervention the items could be dumped outside of the room and expose the clean assistant and others. The other listed actions in the process are correct performance in double bagging.

The Nursing Assistant Is Caring for a Client in "Transmission-Based