What is Hand hygiene
In your facility, who's responsible for preventing and controlling infections?
You (everyone)
What should you remember to do before entering a resident’s room?
What is knock and introduce yourself
Which mode of infection transmission is due to microorganisms being transferred to other patients from contaminated equipment and via the hands of healthcare staff?
What is contact
Wash your hands whenever you remove your gloves. True or false
What is true
Requires hand washing instead of hand rub with alcohol‐based gel
What is caring for a patient with diarrhea/C-diff?
Name three types of PPE (personal protective equipment) that you might use.
Gloves, Gown, Eye protection (goggles), Mask
A good way to help housekeeping keep the environment clean
Minimize or reduce clutter
Pathogens expelled from the respiratory tract through coughing and sneezing are an example of what mode of infection transmission?
What is Droplet ?
Do you touch barrels, door knobs, faucets, or residents’ personal items with dirty gloves on.
What is No !
What are four examples of when you should wash your hands?
After going to the bathroom, before eating, before cooking, after touching an animal, after touching money, after coughing or sneezing
Aside from hand hygiene, what are two practices that are included in Routine Practices.
1. Point of Care Risk Assessment. 2) Appropriate use of PPE. 3) Proper disposal of sharps. 4) Cleaning of equipment and environment
The role of the housekeeper or environmental cleaning personnel is critical to the control and prevention of ______.
What is infections?
What precaution is required for patients known or suspected to be infected with microorganisms that can be transmitted to other patients/staff via the airborne route e.g. in dust.
What is airborne ?
Use gloves whenever you may come in contact with bodily fluids including blood and urine. True or False
What is true
How long should you wash your hands for?
What is 20 seconds
Safety measures used in healthcare to reduce the risk of transmission of infection
What is Standard Precautions
High touch surfaces include, but are not limited to:
What are
Some diseases have multiple routes of transmission and more than one Transmission-Based Precautions category may be used. True or False
True
What is gloves
How should you use hand sanitizer?
All over your hands, in between your fingers and under your nails
Standard precautions includes the use of
What is hand washing, appropriate personal protective equipment such as gloves, gowns, masks, whenever touching or exposure to patients' body fluids is anticipated.
What do you do when you notice any spills on the floor, such as urine, water, coffee ?
What is clean it up immediately
Transmission-Based Precautions are used in addition to Standard Precautions when the patient is suspected of having organisms that could be spread in ways other than in blood or body fluids. True or False
True
The only way you have properly removed a pair of gloves is if no _____ portion of any glove has touched any part of your skin.