PPE
What must be removed and/or replaced prior to leaving the work area or patient care area?
All PPE must be removed including gloves. Gloves are not to be worn outside of the immediate work area.
What type of precaution is used when providing patient care or while handling items that may be contaminated with blood and body fluids?
Standard precautions
If exposed to blood who should be notified?
Immediately notify your supervisor and Employee Health or the House Supervisor.
All equipment shall be disinfected when?
1. After patient use
2. Anytime it has become contaminated
Are personal eyeglasses considered adequate and acceptable eye protection?
No
PPE that has been compromised or penetrated by blood must be?
1. Removed as soon as possible
2. Replaced as soon as possible
What must a Team Member do immediately after contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials?
1. Wash hands with soap and water
2. Wash exposed skin with soap and water
3. Flush mucous membranes with water
What should be requested after being exposed to blood?
The Red Exposure Packet.
When should safety devices for sharps be activated?
Immediately after use.
For a potential splash what PPE should be worn?
1. Mask
1. Eye protection
3. Face shield
What are 3 examples of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
1. Gown
2. Mask or Respirator
3. Goggles or Face Shield
4. Gloves
What is an indirect transmission of a bloodborne pathogens?
Touching a contaminated object or surface and transferring the infectious material to your mouth, eyes, nose or open skin.
What must be completed by the Team Member affected after by a blood exposure?
A Workplace Injury Even in Origami.
When is the only time the one-handed scoop method can be used?
To recap a contaminated needle that does not have a safety device or sharps container available.
Who is Porter's Occupational Health Coordinator?
Julie Fanning!
What is the sequence for removing PPE?
1. Gloves (or gown and gloves together)
2. Goggles or Face Shield
3. Gown
4. Mask or Respirator
5. Wash hands
What are 3 bloodborne pathogen transmission modes?
1. Open cut
2. Nicks and skin abrasions
3. Dermatitis and acne
4. Mucous membranes (oral, eye, nose)
Who is responsible for reporting potential or known exposures to Employee Health?
You!
What are 3 examples of a sharp?
1. Needles
2. Scalpels
3. Broken glass
4. Exposed ends of dental wires
5. Anything that can pierce, puncture or cut your skin
What are ALL bodily fluids considered?
Infectious material
What is the sequence for putting on PPE?
1. Gown
2. Mask or Respirator
3. Goggles or Face Shield
4. Gloves
What are 3 examples of blood exposure?
1. Percutaneous injury from a contaminated sharp - needlestick or cut with sharp object)
2. Splash into mucous membrane (eyes, mouth, nose)
3. Splash or contact to non-intact skin (skin that is chapped, abraded or afflicted with dermatitis
Where is Origami located?
Hub>Quicklinks>Workplace Injury Event
What should not happen to needles when being disposed?
1. Purposely bent
2. Sheared
3. Broken
Name 3 ways a splash exposure can happen?
1. Flushing a line
2. Opening, emptying, closing a drain or bag
3. Emptying fluids and solids from a urinal or bedside commode
4. Wound care