Hand Hygiene
Environmental Hygiene & Precautions
VA Infection Prevention Initiatives
Random (but important) trivia
Bugs
100
In order to ensure hands have been thoroughly cleaned, healthcare workers perform soap and water hand hygiene for this length of time.
What is at least 15 seconds?
100
This type of precautions is used with all patients, during all patient contacts and includes any possible combination of PPE.
What is standard precautions?
100
This initiative started in June of 2012 with the goal to reduce CDI within the Veteran population to zero or to 30% below baseline?
What is the CDI Prevention Initiative?
100
The natural occurance of bacteria on the body (skin, airway, intestine) that causes no symptoms but can be transmitted from person to person and environment to person.
What is colonization?
100
Each year in the US, this pathogen causes 14,000 deaths, more than 250,000 infections and rivals MRSA as the most common cause of HAI.
What is C. diff?
200
Healthcare workers would not use alcohol based hand sanitizer in these situations.
What is when the hands are visibly soiled or dirty, if working with a patient with an unknonwn enteric pathogen or with a patient with CDI or norovirus.
200
In addition to standard precautions, what type of precaution is used to reduce the risk of transmission of MDRO in an inpt setting?
What is contact precautions? Glove and gown upon entrance into the pt room.
200
This program went VA nationwide in 2007 with the goal of reducing MRSA transmissions and infections.
What is the MRSA Prevention Initiative?
200
By what methods are MDROs and other pathogens transmitted to patients?
What is healthcare workers (hands & clothing), patient care equpiment, and the environment? Anything you touch as been touched by someone else and who knows where their hands have been!!
200
In the US each year this pathogen kills 19,000 people, causes nearly 370,000 hospitalizations, causes 7 million doctor visits and cost billions of additional dollars in healthcare spending.
What is MRSA?
300
Healthcare workers avoid bringing in their own skin care products for this reason.
What is possible chemical incompatibility issues.
300
This is done to non-critical RME between all patients.
What is cleaning of the equipment with the appropriate cleaner/disinfectant?
300
Name the components of the MRSA Prevention Initiative.
What is agressive hand hygiene, contact precautions, active surveillance screening, and culture change?
300
Staff can access this for important infection prevention-related documents.
What is the Infection Control folder under forms and resouces on the desk top?
300
Each year in the US there are 2 million of these, 70% of which are resistant to one or more classes of antibiotics.
What is a HAI?
400
Besides performing adequate hand hygiene, healthcare workers also do this to ensure they are not transmitting harmful microbes from patient to patient.
What is keeping nails less than 1/4 in in length, not wearing nail polish or artifial nails and keeping skin well hydrated.
400
This is where you find information on how to clean non-critical RME based on manufacturer instructions.
What is the non-critical RME SharePoint site?
400
What are the components of the CDI Prevention Initiative?
What is environmental hygiene, hand hygiene, contact precuations, and cultural transformation?
400
How can you prevent the spread of MDROs?
What is frequent hand hygiene and frequent environmental cleaning?
400
This is the difference between infection and colonization.
What are symptoms and being harmful?
500
Name at least five of the nine indications for hand hygiene.
What is 1)when you get to work 2)before and after eating 3)before and after using the restroom 4)before leaving for the day 5)before touching a patient 6)after touching a patient 7)before a procedure 8)after a procedure or body fluid exposure risk 9)after touching the environment in the patients room.
500
In an inpatient setting patients with confirmed or suspected enteric pathogens of interest are placed into this type of precautions.
What is enteric precautions? Where only soap and water hand hygiene and bleach cleaning is used.
500
This scale is used to help the healthcare worker determine which stool samples are acceptable for CDI testing?
What is the Bristol Stool Scale?
500
Where do you find the MDRO status of a patient?
What is in the postings section of CPRS on the coversheet in the upper right hand corner?
500
This develops through gene transfer of plasmids, mutations and antibiotic exposure.
What is antimicrobial resistance?
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