Medical-Surgical Nursing · Chapter 7
Millimetres, Masks and the Four Drugs
A tuberculin skin test has no single positive value — the cut point belongs to the patient, not the test. Slide an induration, pick who the patient is, and watch 12 mm turn from negative to positive. Then switch to the RIPE bench and decide, for each thing a patient reports, which of the four drugs did it and what you do about it.