Basic Infection Prevention & Control
This type of precaution expands the use of PPE and refers to the use of gowns 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
A point-of-care device that should not be shared, whenever possible. If it 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 must 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 the 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 use common sense practices and PPE 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 should 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 the 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
A 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.
What is an infection control risk assessment?
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, yet simple, objective method used to assess the effectiveness of the cleaning process.
What are fluorescent markers?
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/pdf/strive/EC102-508.pdf
Some healthcare providers practice hand hygiene less than half of the times they should. Healthcare providers might need to clean their hands as many as ___ times per 12-hour shift.
What are the best practices for linen (and laundry) handling?
https://www.cdc.gov/hai/prevent/resource-limited/laundry.html
Infection control precautions 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.
TRUE or FALSE: Enter medication containers with a new needle and a new syringe, even when obtaining additional doses for the same patient.
Antimicrobial products that are registered with the EPA to kill C.auris (eg. CaviWipes1, Micro-Kill Bleach Solution, Virasept)
The action of using either an antimicrobial soap or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with persistent activity before donning sterile gloves when performing surgical procedures.
What is surgical hand antisepsis?