Medical Asepsis
State 5 examples of medical asepsis.
What is using personal protective equipment (PPE) when anticipating contact with blood or body fluids, respiratory hygiene/cough etiquette, cleaning and disinfecting equipment and environment, careful handling laundry, following safe injection practices, and proper handling of needles and other sharps?
Used for all blood and body fluids.
What are Standard Precautions?
Needed for contact precautions.
What is gown and gloves?
Free from ALL microorganisms.
What is Surgical Asepsis?
State 3 manifestations of infection.
What is fever, elevated WBC, redness, inflammation, odor, and/or drainage?
This occurs when the body's natural defense system can't tell the difference between its own cells and foreign cells, causing the body to mistakenly attack normal cells leading to disease and/or disability.
What is an Autoimmune disease ?
A state of being immunocompromised.
What is a susceptible host?
This is also known as “clean technique” and is aimed at controlling the number of microorganisms. It is used for all clinical patient care activities.
What is medical asepsis?
This type of isolation requires the control of airflow with the use of specially designed ventilation systems, the practice of antiseptic techniques, N95 mask, goggles, gown, and gloves.
What are Airborne Precautions?
This type of mask is used for Droplet Precautions.
What is a surgical mask?
A process, also called surgical asepsis, used to eliminate every potential microorganism in and around a sterile field while also maintaining objects as free from microorganisms as possible.
What is sterile technique?
A nurse is working with an older client. State a priority health promotion intervention for preventing infections.
What are immunizations?
This is the most numerous white blood cell (WBC) in the body.
What are neutrophils or granulocytes?
An anatomic site through which pathogens can pass into a host, such as mucous membranes, skin, respiratory, or digestive systems.
What is a portal of entry?
This is the number one priority when maintaining medical asepsis.
What is handwashing?
State 1 example of an infection that requires Airborne Isolation Precautions.
What are TB, Varicella/Chicken pox, measles?
State the proper PPE for the following patient:
85 year old male diagnosed with C. diff (also known as Clostridioides difficile or C. difficile), dementia and falls risk.
What are a gown and gloves?
This is how the scrub nurse should hold objects to maintain sterility.
What is just above waist level?
Define Leukocytosis.
What is a high WBC (White blood Cell Count)?
This lab change is most often seen in infection.
What is an increased white blood cell (WBC) count?
The method by which the organism leaves the reservoir as through secretions, blood, urine, breast milk, or feces.
What is a portal of exit?
3 examples of Medical (clean) Asepsis.
What is washing hands, cleaning surfaces, cleaning medical equipment, disposing of used supplies properly (laundry, needles, etc.)?
State 2 examples of infections that require droplet precautions.
What are mumps, influenza, pertussis (whooping cough), & meningitis?
State the proper PPE for a 17 year old male with COVID-19 symptoms with a pending COVID rapid test admitted with sore throat, cough and difficulty breathing.
What is a gown, N95, face shield, and gloves?
If there is any doubt of the sterility you must consider it.....
What is contaminated/unsterile?
The name of the micro-organisms that live in our body and are beneficial in maintaining health and fighting infection are called this.
What is normal flora?
An acute systemic allergic reaction that may result in shock or death.
What is anaphylaxis?
People, Animals, Soil, Food.
What is a reservoir?
This type of infection is caused in the process of medical treatment.
What is an Iatrogenic Infection?
This type of transmission occurs in an aerosol form from a person’s respiratory tract. These pathogens may travel much farther and infect more people due to their smaller size and weight.
What is Airborne transmission?
State the correct PPE for a 2 year old female admitted with bacterial meningitis.
What is a surgical mask?
In a sterile field this area, no matter what, is considered unsterile.
What is the outer 1 inch around the sterile field?
This is the most common Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI).
What is a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)?
A patient who is receiving 1 unit of Packed Red Blood Cells (PRBCs) begins to experience difficulty breathing 15 minutes after starting the transfusion. State your top 2 priority nursing interventions .
What is what is disconnect the transfusion and assess patient's vital signs?
The vehicle by which the organism is transferred such as physical contact, droplets or airborne. The most common vehicles are a cough, sneeze, or on the hands.
What is mode of transmission?
The type of isolation for each specific pathogen depends on the organism's mode of transmission.