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What PPE must you put on to enter a patients room on droplet precaution ?
Mask
Who should you use standard precautions for ?
Everyone
Chain of infection
What PPE is required to enter the room of a patient with TB or Coronavirus?
N95 or higher respirator
the type of isolation required for a patient who has fecal incontinence that has been tested and determined to have C DIFF
Contact
This microbe lives in the colon but often becomes an infection in the urinary tract
E coli
Where do microbes grow?
Reservoir
When a patient with an infection is going home, what can you teach them to prevent further or a new infection (teach prevention)?
Wash your hands
What type of PPE will you put on to care for a patient with a MRSA wound infection that is draining excessively?
Gown and gloves
What type of isolation is required for a patient with MRSA pneumonia?
Droplet
Where do microbes move?
List 2 times you should wash your hands vs use sanitizer
When visibly soiled
before you eat
after using the restroom
after you remove gloves
When you are putting on full PPE, What piece do you put on first?
gown
This type of microbe causes ringworm, athletes foot, and yeast infections.
Fungus
The person whose body the organism has entered
Susceptible host
When you removing PPE, which do you take off first ?
Gloves
Which isolation requires a negative pressure room to allow the air to be circulated out of the room so many times per hour?
Airborne
The method by which the organism leaves the reservoir
Portal of exit