Keep It Clean
Recommended duration for performing hand hygiene using alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR).
What is 20 seconds?
Do this to ensure the skin is dry after bathing.
What is pat dry?
Mask, gloves, goggles and gowns.
What is PPE?
A healthcare program for individuals that are dying.
What is hospice?
PPE required to enter a patient’s room on "Contact" Precautions
What is gown and gloves?
When an individual has c'diff, how do you clean your hands?
What is soap and water?
Helps to prevent infections such as UTIs & ensure the individual’s comfort.
What are comfort checks/peri care?
A standard approach to caring for all individuals that protects health care workers from blood borne pathogens and body fluids.
What are Standard precautions?
What should you do if the food served does not appear to match the diet noted on the meal ticket?
Verify with the nurse, return it to dietary for a replacement tray
Dirty needles, sharps and blood-soaked items are examples of this.
What are biohazards?
This is used to turn off the faucet after hand washing.
What is a clean DRY paper towel?
This can be applied after each incontinent episode to promote skin care/prevent skin breakdown.
What is skin protectant/barrier cream?
Disposable gowns are discarded here after use unless they are blood soaked.
What is regular trash?
What does QAPI stands for?
What is Quality Assurance Performance Improvement?
____means to put on PPE.
What is Donning?
Give 3 examples of when to wash your hands.
What is when hands are visibly soiled, after contact, before eating, after a body fluids exposure including your own body fluids, after glove removal, before glove use?
3 things peri-care prevents.
What is irritation, skin breakdown/wounds, odor, infections/UTIs?
MDRO is the acronym for what?
What is Multi-Drug Resistant Organism?
Foul smelling dark colored urine is generally a sign of?
What is dehydration?
Frequently touched surfaces that can harbor pathogens. These surfaces need to be wiped down often.
What are high-touch surfaces?
This can lead to decreased hand hygiene compliance and may increase cross-contamination.
What is the overuse of gloves?
When providing peri-care to uncircumcised males, it is important to do this.
What is pull back foreskin, wash area, dry and return foreskin to normal position?
Name 3 common types of transmission-based precautions.
What is Standard, Contact & Droplet or Airborne?
This is required if not receiving the flu shot during flu season.
What is an exemption and mask?
Targeted gown and glove use during high-contact care activities for SNF residents with an indwelling medical device (e.g., central lines, urinary catheters, feeding tube, tracheostomy/ventilators), wounds, colonization or active infection with a multi-drug-resistant organism is called what?
What are Enhanced Barrier Precautions?