Transmission-Based Precautions
A) is an online informative course all health workers must take on an annual basis.
B) are guidelines from WHO for dealing with emerging infectious diseases.
C) are instructions on the care of all patients given to nurses at their place of employment.
D) are guidelines to use with patients infected with a highly transmissible or epidemiologically important pathogen.
E) are guidelines given to patients before they enter the hospital to educate them on HAIs.

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Transmission-Based Precautions are guidelines to use with patients infected with a highly transmissible or epidemiologically important pathogen. These precautions are used in addition to Standard Precautions and include contact precautions, droplet precautions, and airborne precautions, depending on the mode of transmission of the specific pathogen.