New clients needing contact isolation

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A nurse needs to assign rooms for two new clients needing contact isolation, but only one semi-private room is currently available. One client is being admitted due to diarrhea from Clostridium difficile. The other client has a large draining abdominal wound, but the pathogen has not yet been identified from the culture. Can these two clients be placed in the same room (cohorting)? Why or why not? (Enter your response and submit to compare to an expert's response.

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