Surgical team members have control of many of the factors that have been shown to contribute to SSIs.Which statement below reflects a best practice for surgical scrub/surgical hand asepsis?

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Keep nails short and do not wear artificial nails.Do not wear hand or arm jewelry.Educate and encourage surgical personnel who have signs and symptoms of transmissible infections to report conditions promptly to supervisory personnel.Develop well-defined policies concerning patient care responsibilities when personnel have potentially transmissible infectious conditions.Do not routinely exclude surgical personnel who are colonized with organisms such as S.aureus or group A streptococcus,unless such personnel have been linked epidemiologically to dissemination of the organism in the healthcare setting.

Surgical Team Members Have Control of Many of the Factors