Basic Infection Prevention & Control
This type of precaution expands the use of PPE and refer to the use of gown and gloves during high-contact resident care activities that provide opportunities for the transfer of MDROs to staff hands and clothing.
What are Enhanced Barrier Precautions?
These are the three modes of transmission-based precautions.
What are contact, droplet, and airborne?
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/basics/transmission-based-precautions.html
Should not be shared, whenever possible. If they must be shared, the device should be cleaned and disinfected after every use, per the manufacturer’s instructions. If the manufacturer does not specify how the device should be cleaned and disinfected then it should not be shared.
This agency approves disinfectants.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-registration/selected-epa-registered-disinfectants
Fingertips, Thumbs, and between fingers.
What are the areas most often missed when using alcohol-based hand rub?
These are used for all patient care. They’re based on a risk assessment and make use of common sense practices and personal protective equipment use that protect healthcare providers from infection and prevent the spread of infection from patient to patient.
What are Standard precautions?
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/basics/standard-precautions.html
These precautions are intended to prevent the transmission of infectious agents, including epidemiologically important microorganisms, which are spread by direct or indirect contact with the patient or the patient's environment.
What are contact precautions?
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/isolation/precautions.html
Devices that are designed to permit self-injection and are intended for single-person use. These devices are often used by healthcare personnel to administer insulin to patients. They are designed to be used multiple times, for a single person, using a new needle for each injection, and never be used for more than one person.
What are Insulin pens?
https://cdc.gov/injectionsafety/clinical-reminders/insulin-pens.html
The removal of foreign material (e.g., soil, and organic material) from objects and is normally accomplished using water with detergents or enzymatic products.
This method of hand hygiene is the preferred way to clean your hands in healthcare facilities.
What are Alcohol-based hand sanitizers?
A method that is used to prevent contamination with microorganisms.
What is aseptic technique
The type of precaution indicated for care of a patient infected with or suspected of having measles (rubeola)
What is Airborne Precautions?
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/isolation/appendix/type-duration-precautions.html
set of recommendations within Standard Precautions, which are the foundation for preventing transmission of infections during patient care in all healthcare settings including hospitals, long-term care facilities, ambulatory care, home care and hospice.
What are Safe Injection Practices?
This tool ensures all room surfaces and facility areas have been cleaned and disinfected daily.
What are Daily Cleaning Sheets and Checklists?
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/pdf/strive/EC102-508.pdf
When hands are visibly dirty, • Before eating, • After using a restroom, • After caring for a person with known or suspected infectious diarrhea, and • After known or suspected exposure to spores (e.g., B. anthracis, C. difficile outbreaks).
What are situations that require hand washing with soap and water?
https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/documents/topics/NCOV/hand_hygiene_healthcare_settings.pdf
This is a sophisticated living document that forms the foundation of any comprehensive IPC program. The related policy evolves over time as goals and measurable objectives change, while maintaining a solid framework for consistent patient safety.
The transfer of an infectious agent from a reservoir to a host by suspended air particles, inanimate objects (vehicles), or animate intermediaries (vectors).
What are the forms of Indirect Transmission?
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section10.html
Reusing a needle or syringe puts patients in danger of contracting ____, ____, and possibly ____. When it is discovered that the reuse of a needle or syringe has occurred, all patients who may have been affected should be notified and informed to get tested.
What are Hepatitis C, hepatitis B, and HIV?
https://www.cdc.gov/injectionsafety/patients/syringeuse_faqs.html
An effective objective method used to assess the effectiveness of the cleaning process.
What is a Fluorescent marker?
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/pdf/strive/EC102-508.pdf
Some healthcare providers practice hand hygiene _________ of the times they should. Healthcare providers might need to clean their hands as many as 100 times per 12-hour shift.
What is less than half?
What are the best practices for linen (and laundry) handling?
https://www.cdc.gov/hai/prevent/resource-limited/laundry.html
Methods of infection control that must be used to prevent the spread of pathogens that are passed through respiratory secretions and do not survive for long in transit. Transmitted by large particles expelled during coughing, sneezing, talking, or laughing.
CDC is collaborating with the ________ to develop and implement an educational campaign to promote safe injection practices by raising awareness among patients and healthcare providers about safe injection practices.
What is Safe Injection Practices Coalition (SIPC)?
Antimicrobial products that are registered with the EPA to kill C.auris (eg. CaviWipes1, Micro-Kill Bleach Solution, Virasept etc.)
This practice is a way of cleaning one's hands that substantially reduces potential pathogens (harmful microorganisms) on the hands. It is considered a primary measure for reducing the risk of transmitting infection among patients and healthcare personnel.
What is hand hygiene?
https://www.cdc.gov/oralhealth/infectioncontrol/faqs/hand-hygiene.html