Hand Hygiene
In order to ensure hands have been thoroughly cleaned, healthcare workers perform soap and water hand hygiene for this length of time.
What is at least 15 seconds?
This type of precautions is used with all patients, during all patient contacts and includes any possible combination of PPE.
What is standard precautions?
You would do this with a blood soaked dressing.
What is place the dressing in a red bag/biohazard bin?
The natural occurrence of bacteria on the body (skin, airway, intestine) that causes no symptoms but can be transmitted from person to person and environment to person.
What is colonization?
Healthcare workers would not use alcohol based hand sanitizer in these situations.
What is when the hands are visibly soiled or dirty, if working with a patient with an unknown enteric pathogen or with a patient with confirmed C.diff or norovirus?
In addition to standard precautions, what type of precaution is used to reduce the risk of transmission of MDROs in an inpatient setting?
What is contact precautions? Glove and gown upon entrance into the patient room.
Pathogens are present in both, but symptoms are present in only one.
What is the difference between colonization and infection?
By what methods are MDROs and other pathogens transmitted to patients?
What is healthcare workers (hands & clothing), patient care equipment, and the environment? Anything you touch as been touched by someone else and who knows where their hands have been!!
Healthcare workers avoid bringing in their own skin care products for this reason.
What is possible chemical incompatibility issues, possible contaminated products?
This is done to all non-critical reusable medical equipment (RME) between all patients.
What is cleaning of the equipment with the appropriate cleaner/disinfectant and ensuring the appropriate contact time?
This develops through gene transfer of plasmids, mutations and antibiotic exposure.
What is antimicrobial resistance?
Staff can access this for important infection prevention-related documents.
What is the Infection Prevention and Control SharePoint site and the W drive.
In addition to performing adequate hand hygiene, healthcare workers do this with their hands to ensure they are not transmitting harmful microbes from patient to patient.
What is keep nails less than 1/4 inch in length, do NOT wear nail polish or artificial nails and keep skin well hydrated.
This is where you find information on how to clean non-critical reusable medical equipment (RME) based on manufacturer instructions.
What is the W drive?
Strategies implemented to prevent transmission of pathogens from patient to patient when using needles. These strategies include never reusing needles, cannulas and syringes, and using aseptic technique.
What are safe injection practices?
There is substantial evidence that this reduces the incidence of infections and assists in preventing the spread of MDROs.
What is frequent hand hygiene and frequent environmental cleaning?
Name at least five indications for performing hand hygiene.
What is 1) when hands are visibly dirty, contaminated, or soiled, wash with soap and water 2) when hands are not visibly soiled, use an alcohol-based handrub for routinely decontaminating hands. 3) before: *patient contact *donning gloves *performing a procedure such as inserting urinary catheters, peripheral vascular catheters, or other invasive devices that don't require surgery 4) after: *contact with a patient's skin *performing a procedure *contact with body fluids or excretions, non-intact skin, wound dressings *doffing gloves 5) after touching the environment in the patients room 6) before and after using the restroom 7) before and after eating 8) before starting work for the day and before leaving for home at the end of the day
In an inpatient setting patients with confirmed or suspected enteric pathogens of interest are placed into this type of precautions.
What is enteric precautions? Where only soap and water hand hygiene and bleach cleaning is used.
This scale is used to help the healthcare worker determine which stool samples are acceptable for C. difficile (CDI) testing?
What is the Bristol Stool Scale?
This is where you find the status of a patient that has a known history of colonization or infection with an MDRO.
What is in the postings section of CPRS on the coversheet in the upper right hand corner?