After the first 24 hours following birth, a fever of 38 °C or higher finding should alert the nurse to a potential infection in the client.
What is potential infection?
- Being close to a person who has an infectious disease makes it possible to contract it.
- Gloves, face masks, and other PPE are all possible sources of infection.
- Pathogens could transfer from one surface to another, for instance, if someone wearing gloves touches a reservoir then touches a piece of furniture.
- Four primary methods of transmission are used to disseminate bacteria among patients and medical staff
- Contact, respiratory droplets, airborne dissemination, and common vehicle.
- A temperature of 38° C or 100.4° F or greater after the first 24 hours after birth, occurring on at least two of the first 10 days following birth, exclusive of the first 24 hours
- It is considered a postpartum infection.
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