Infection Prevention
The bath/cleaning a patient with a central line should be given every day.
What is a CHG bath?
How often foley care should be performed.
What is every shift and PRN
Hand hygiene ONLY using soap and water
What is the proper way to clean hands after exiting a c.diff room?
Where all specimens should be collected and labeled.
What is the bedside?
The time limit to send a C.Diff sample before it is deemed Hospital Acquired.
What is 3 calendar days from date of admission?
A list of common infections and what isolation precautions are needed for them.
What is on the back of the isolation signs?
Disinfectant used to clean a C.difficile patient's room.
What is bleach or sporicidal cleaner (Oxycide)?
C. Diff log
What must be completed before a C. Diff sample is sent to the lab?
Laxatives, Antibiotics, Formed stool
What is exclusion criteria for a C.diff sample?
This protocol enables nursing to insert, maintain and discontinue the urinary catheter.
What is nurse driven urinary catheter protocol?
Required charting each shift that the patient is on isolation.
What is Isolation Activity and Isolation Education?
Contact/Wet time of Clorox bleach wipes.
What is 3 minutes?
The first thing you should do when a C.diff sample is ordered.
What is place patient on isolation?
The patient can be positive for a HAI for MRSA in the blood without a central line present. (True/False)
What is True?
The contact/wet time for purple top PDI wipes?
What is 2 minutes?
Two common ways C. difficile is transmitted in the healthcare setting
What are the patient's environment and healthcare worker hands?
Bag below bladder, Catheter secure, Collection bag less than 2/3 full, Drainage bag off floor, Sterile and closed system/seal unbroken, Tube Secured, Tubing Straight
What is the CAUTI Bundle?