Infection Control Basics
This is the definition of Infection Prevention & Control.
What is a discipline that aims to prevent the spread of infections in various settings, including healthcare facilities, communities and public spaces. It involves practices and measures designed to minimize the risk of acquiring and transmitting infections
This type of hand hygiene is the CDC preferred method of hand hygiene when hands are not visibly soiled?
What is alcohol-based hand sanitizer?
These type of precautions are used for patients with known or suspected to be infected with pathogens transmitted by respiratory droplets that are generated by a patient who is coughing, sneezing, or talking.
What is droplet precautions?
This is the name referred to the time a cleaning/disinfecting product should stay on a surface.
What is the contact or kill time?
This type of meeting is federally required in nursing homes.
What is a QAA Committee?
Name 3 responsibilities of the infection control staff member.
What is
1) Surveillance (Audits, Skills fa
2) Data display tools (control charts, diagrams and scatter plots)
3) Outbreak Investigations
4) Staff Infection Control Education
5) Risk Assessment
This type of hand hygiene is performed after caring for a person with known or suspected C.Diff.
What is washing with soap and water?
This is the frequency that fit testing should occur.
What is Annually?
This is the area of the resident room that should ALWAYS be cleaned last.
What is the bathroom?
This type of committee is not required but recommended.
What is a QAPI Steering Committee?
This is the criteria to measure the number of true infections and to estimate the incidence/prevalence of an infection.
What is McGeer Criteria ?
This is the amount of time an individual should wash their hands at a minimum with soap and water.
What is 20 seconds?
This type of PPE is used for airborne precautions.
What is a fit-tested NIOSH- approved N95 or high level respirator?
These type of filters are recommended to help prevent spread of contaminates.
What is HEPA type filters?
The regulation calls for a written plan to guides your performance improvement efforts. What is the plan called?
What is your QAPI plan?
This is the clinical criteria used to inform resident care decisions regarding initiation of antibiotics
What is Leob criteria.
This is the percentage of alcohol that an alcohol based hand rub solution should contain.
What 60%?
These are the locations of where donning PPE and Doffing PPE should occur.
What is donning prior to entering the room and doffing prior to exiting?
These items: Cleaning pens, counters, door knobs, railings, elevator buttons, time clock, and desks is referred to as what?
What is high-touch surfaces?
What is: Adverse events, Infection control activity/surveillance, Antibiotic Stewardship, Hand hygiene audits, Use of PPE audits, Widespread quality of care and Pressure areas - potential for infection.
This is the difference between an observational audit vs. competency skills check.
What is the employee is aware of the competency or the skills check. (Competency skills check)
What is the employee is NOT aware of the competency or skills check. (Observational audit)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has the 5 moments for hand hygiene, name 4 of those moments.
1. Before touching a patient
2. Before providing a clean/aseptic procedure
3. After direct contact with body fluid
4. After touching a patient
5. After touching surfaces around a patient
Name three examples of high contact resident care activities requiring gown and glove use for enhanced barrier precautions.
This list is of registered disinfecting products.
What is EPA registered disinfecting product list?
The newest QAPI F-tag that was released with the Phase 3 Requirements of Participations(ROP) is related what?
What is QAPI Training? F944 - A facility must include as part of its QAPI program mandatory training that outlines and informs staff of the elements and goals of the facility's QAPI program as set forth at §483.75