Hand Hygiene
A time in which you must perform hand hygiene
What is when entering a patient's room / before putting gloves on / after taking gloves off / before accessing a central line / before exiting patient's room?
Type of care that must be documented at least every shift and after every bowel movement
What is pericare?
The last thing you do before touching/accessing a central line
What is hand hygiene and new gloves?
An appropriate sample for testing must be one of two levels of the Bristol Stool Chart
What are type 6 & type 7? (liquid stool to take shape of the container)
Length of wet time for purple top and orange top wipes
What is 2 minutes and 4 minutes?
First promoted as a life-saving practice in healthcare by this pioneer of nursing, hand hygiene became a cornerstone of infection control
Who is Florence Nightingale?
The jingle/rhyme to remember when to remove or exchange an indwelling catheter prior to drawing UA/Ucx
What is "clean slate at 48"?
Must be completed and documented at least every 24 hours to decrease the risk of a line infection
What is CHG?
PPE for C.Diff + patient
What is gown & gloves?
Describe "wet time"
What is the amount of time an item must remain wet with disinfectant for it to be deemed clean
The minimum amount of time you must scrub hands during hand washing
What is 15 seconds?
The amount of hours at which a trial of void should be started for a indwelling urinary catheter in place for acute retention
What is less than or equal to 48 hours?
The number of days we have before and after a positive blood culture results to determine a primary source of infection
What is 3 days? 72 hours before positive culture, day of positive culture, 72 hours after positive culture
The appropriate disinfectant for cleaning supplies coming out of a C.Diff room
What is bleach / orange top?
The proper use of hand hygiene, gloves, and mask for all Oncology patient population
What are Standard Precautions?
A regulatory finding on our most recent Joint Commission survey
What is not completing hand hygiene before patient care?
An alternative external urinary collection device (give a female and male response)
What is PrimaFit/Sure Step (condom catheter)/PureWick?
Type of infection that can be reclassified if it is a gut organism and the patient is neutropenic and/or within 1 year of am allo BMT
What is a Mucosal Barrier Injury (MBI)?
Proper hand hygiene after caring for C.Diff patient
What is CHG soap and water?
PPE for Varicella (disseminated zoster)
What is airborne & contact precautions?
The percentage of alcohol is generally recommended in hand sanitizers to effectively kill most germs
What is 60%?
2 pieces of information must be present on the indwelling catheter bag after insertion
What is date of placement and initials of RN?
Must be assessed daily at minimum, by nursing and care team, to validate the patient still requiring central venous access
What is line necessity?
The number of days a patient can be in the hospital but still have community-acquired C.Diff
What is 3 days?
Once C.Diff +, the floor decal should be placed by the door facing a certain direction
What is facing the room? (to be read upon exiting the room)