Don’t Spread the Germy Love
This is the most effective way to prevent the spread of infections.
What is hand hygiene?
This is true or false: Cleaning and disinfecting mean the same thing.
What is false
This is what PPE stands for.
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
When performing hand hygiene, this is how many seconds you should rub your hands together.
What is at least 15 seconds (or until your hands are dry if using ABHR)?
This is who is responsible for infection prevention and control.
Who is everyone?
This is true or false: A person can spread germs even if they don't feel sick.
What is true?
This is how long the surface must remain visibly wet with the product to be effective.
What is contact time?
This is true or false: Wearing gloves means your hands cannot become contaminated.
What is false?
This method of hand hygiene is preferred when hands are visibly soiled.
What is soap and water?
This is the required alcohol concentration range for alcohol-based hand rub.
What is 70–90%?
These are the two methods used to perform hand hygiene.
What are soap and water and alcohol-based hand rub?
This must be done before disinfecting a visibly soiled surface.
What is cleaning?
These are four common types of PPE.
What are gloves, gowns, masks, and eye protection?
This is a piece of PPE you can wear to reduce transmission of respiratory illness to others.
What is a mask?
This product requires dilution before use and does not have a DIN.
What is bleach?
This is the process that describes how an infection spreads from one person or place to another.
What is the Chain of Infection?
This is the practice of returning a used cleaning cloth to the same bucket of disinfecting solution before using it again.
What is double-dipping?
This type of PPE requires fit testing.
What is an N95 respirator?
A staff member cleans a toilet and then uses the same cloth to clean a bedside table. This is an example of this.
What is cross-contamination?
These are the four types of Additional Precautions that may be implemented in addition to Routine Practices.
What are Droplet, Contact, Droplet-Contact, and Airborne Precautions?
These are any three of the six links in the Chain of Infection.
What are infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission, portal of entry, and susceptible host?
These are five examples of high-touch surfaces that should be regularly cleaned and disinfected.
What are keyboard, mouse, phone, light switches, door handles, elevator buttons, hand rails, pens, etc.
This is the correct order for doffing (removing) a full set of PPE (HINT: Don’t forget hand hygiene).
What is gloves → gown → hand hygiene → eye protection → mask → hand hygiene?
These are 4 actions you can take at work to help prevent the spread of respiratory infections.
What are hand hygiene, respiratory etiquette, staying home when sick, or using appropriate masking/PPE, proper environmental cleaning, getting vaccinated, etc.?
This 8-digit number is assigned by Health Canada to a disinfectant product that has been evaluated for safety, quality, and effectiveness before being sold in Canada.
What is a Drug Identification Number (DIN)?