Transmission-Based Precautions
Precaution that necessitates the use of a negative-pressure room and an N95 respirator.
What is Airborne Precautions?
Bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites.
What are Infectious Agents?
Recovery from infection.
What is the Convalescent Period?
Equipment and supplies necessary to minimize or prevent exposure to infectious material.
What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
Plain soap and water, antiseptic hand rubs, or surgical hand antisepsis.
What is Hand Hygiene?
Precaution that necessitates the use of gloves and a gown.
What is Contact Precautions?
Natural habitat of the organism.
What is a Reservoir?
Person is most infectious and unaware of being contagious.
What is the Prodromal Stage?
Not a substitute for hand hygiene.
The length of time hands must be scrubbed for.
What is 20 Seconds?
Precaution that necessitates the use of masks.
What is Droplet Precautions?
The point at which organisms enter a new host.
What is the Portal of Entry?
Organisms are multiplying and growing.
What is the Incubation Period?
Helps prevent the wearer from inhaling large-particle aerosols and small-particle droplet nuclei.
What are Masks?
Hand hygiene required for C. difficile.
What is Soap and Water?
Used for scabies infections.
What is Contact Precautions?
What is the point of escape from the reservoir?
What is the Portal of Exit?
Specific signs and symptoms of disease are present.
What is the Full (Acute) Stage?
Worn when there is a risk of contaminating mucous membranes.
What is Protective Eyewear?
Bacteria typically found in skin creases and considerable friction is required to remove it.
What is Resident Bacteria?
Used for varicella (chickenpox) infections.
What is Airborne Precautions?
How infectious agents get around.
What is the Mode of Transmission?
Vague and nonspecific signs of disease are present.
What is the Prodromal Stage?
Used for trash that has liquid or semiliquid blood or other potentially infective material.
What is a Red (BIOHAZARD) Bag?
Bacteria easily removed by handwashing.
What is Transient Bacteria?