What is an HAI?
Infections people get while receiving medical care
What is Healthcare-Associated Infection?
These patients are most vulnerable to HAIs
Who are immunocompromised patients?
gloves, gowns, goggles
What is PPE?
HAIs affects on hospital stays
What is they increase the length of stay?
Following hygiene protocols and educating patients
What is what nurses can do to prevent HAIs?
A type of urinary tract infection (UTI) that develops when germs enter the urinary tract through a urinary catheter
What is a catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI)?
This device increases the risk of a bloodstream infection
What is a central line?
Hand Hygiene
What is the #1 method of preventing HAIs?
Increased stress, fear, or loss of trust in care
What are the emotional tolls an HAI can take on a patient or their family?
Doing this ensures accountability and continuity of care
What is proper documentation?
This type of infection is linked to ventilators
What is ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)?
Poor hand hygiene or contaminated surfaces?
What are environmental risk factors for HAIs?
Central line bundles
What is what the CDC recommends to prevent CLABSIs?
Increased workload, burnout, and emotional fatigue?
What is how HAIs impact healthcare workers and teams?
This empowers patients to participate in prevention
What is properly educating patients?
A serious infection that occurs when germs enter the bloodstream through a central line catheter
What is a central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI)?
Use of invasive devices and critical illness place these patients at higher rick for HAIs
Who are ICU patients?
Continued policy compliance does this
What is it ensures consistent prevention practices?
hospitals face these legal or financial consequences due to high HAI rates
What are lawsuits, insurance penalties, and loss of funding?
nurses should monitor this for early detection
What are signs of infection?
HAIs can only occur in hospitals (True or False)
What is false?
Improper use of antibiotics can
What is it can lead to resistant infections (C. Diff)?
Isolation practices for specific infections
What is transmission-based precaution?
damaged public trust and deterring future patients
What is how repeated HAI outbreaks affect a community’s perception of a facility?
By participating in committees and advocating for safety
What is how nurses can influence policy?