You are assigned to a client who is recovering from abdominal surgery. She tells you that the client in the next room has chronic hepatitis and that she is afraid she will catch it. Which answer would...

You are assigned to a client who is recovering from abdominal surgery. She tells you that the client in the next room has chronic hepatitis and that she is afraid she will catch it. Which answer would best help this client?

• ‘‘Don’t worry. That kind of hepatitis can only be transmitted sexually.’’

• ‘‘There are many kinds of hepatitis—do you know which kind she has?’’

• ‘‘Hospital staff always use precautions to prevent any possibility of transmission of infectious diseases to other clients.’’

• ‘‘There is no problem—that client is not a carrier of the disease.’’