Hand Hygiene
This is the minimum number of seconds you should wash your hands with soap and water.
What is at least 20 seconds?
This PPE item should be donned first.
What is the gown?
This type of precaution requires gloves and gown upon room entry.
What are contact precautions?
You enter a patient’s room to take vital signs. What is the first thing you should do?
What is perform hand hygiene?
This is a common mistake when using hand sanitizer.
What is not rubbing hands until dry?
This method is preferred when hands are not visibly soiled
What is alcohol-based hand sanitizer?
This PPE item should be removed first.
What are gloves?
These precautions are required for illnesses like influenza.
What are droplet precautions?
A patient is on droplet precautions. What PPE is required?
What is a surgical mask?
This mistake involves wearing PPE longer than necessary.
What is not removing PPE after leaving the patient room?
You must wash with soap and water instead of sanitizer after exposure to this organism.
What is Clostridioides difficile (C. diff)?
This PPE protects mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and mouth from splashes.
What is a face shield or goggles with a mask?
This type of room is required for airborne precautions.
What is a negative pressure room?
You accidentally touch a contaminated surface. What should you do immediately?
What is perform hand hygiene?
This error occurs when touching your face while wearing gloves.
What is cross-contamination?
These are the 5 key moments for hand hygiene in patient care.
What are before touching a patient, before clean/aseptic procedures, after body fluid exposure, after touching a patient, and after touching patient surroundings?
This type of mask is required for airborne precautions.
What is an N95 respirator?
This infection requires contact precautions and handwashing with soap and water.
What is C. diff?
A patient with suspected TB is admitted. What precautions should be initiated?
What are airborne precautions?
This mistake happens when skipping hand hygiene after removing gloves.
What is assuming gloves replace hand hygiene?
This is the most commonly missed area when performing hand hygiene.
What are the thumbs and fingertips?
This is the correct order for doffing PPE.
What is gloves, goggles/face shield, gown, mask/respirator?
This disease requires airborne precautions and an N95 mask.
What is tuberculosis (TB)?
You are caring for multiple patients. When should you change gloves?
What is between each patient and between tasks on the same patient?
This is a major infection control error when PPE is removed incorrectly.
What is self-contamination?