The school nurse is informed that a child with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) will be attending school soon. Which is an important nursing intervention?
A) Carefully follow universal precautions.
B) Determine how the child became infected.
C) Inform the parents of the other children.
D) Reassure other children that they will not become infected.

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Universal precautions are necessary to prevent further transmission of the disease. It is not the role of the nurse to determine how the child became infected. Informing the parents of other children and reassuring children that they will not become infected is a violation of the child's right to privacy.

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