The nursing assistant is caring for a client who has night sweats and productive cough raising blood-tinged purulent sputum and who was later diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB). What step should the nursing assistant take next?

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The next step after a possible exposure to TB is for the nursing assistant to be contacted to receive a TB skin test. If the skin test is positive, the next steps would be a chest X-ray to determine if there is an active infection present as well as sputum for analysis. If the assistant is positive for being exposed to the TB but experiences no active infection, then TB medications can be prescribed as prophylaxis to prevent the nursing assistant from getting the active infection. If the assistant has the active infection, then treatment for the TB infection would occur.

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