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It is a type of infection that is limited to a specific location.
What is a "Localized Infection"?
It is what to wear when you expect body fluids to be splashing so you can protect all of your mucus membranes (Eyes, Nose, Mouth).
What is a "Face Shield"?
It is the term used for the place where a pathogen lives and grows.
What is a "Reservoir"?
It is the type of precautions used for people with a suspected infection.
What are "Standard Precautions"
A tube of over-the-counter antibiotic ointment is found at the patient's bedside. Where should you put it?
What is the nurse's cart?
It is a type of infection that has traveled throughout the bloodstream thereby causing fever, chills, nausea and confusion.
What is a "Systemic Infection"?
It is the last thing you put on in The Fashionable PPE Donning session.
What are "Gloves"?
It is the term used for the person likely to get infected.
What is a "Susceptible Host"?
It's the type of isolation used for a MRSA skin infection
What is "Contact Isolation"?
Swept up broken glass needs to be put in this place.
What is a "Sharps Container"?
It is a specific term used for infections acquired during the delivery of care. It is tracked for quality-of-care reporting.
What are "HAI or Healthcare Acquired Infections"
It is the correct order of PPE application for a Special Enhanced Precautions/Airborne precautions room.
What is " 1st is Gown, mask, goggles, then, gloves go on last"?
It is the term used for the body opening that allows pathogens to escape the body.
What is "The Portal of Exit"?
It is the type of isolation typically used for someone with the Flu.
What are "Droplet Precautions"?
A patient is completed quarantine/isolation. This is the place to put the used isolation cart.
What is "The Soiled Utility Room"?
It is the set of methods practiced in healthcare facilities to control the spread of disease.
What is "Infection Control/Prevention"?
It is the specific location to put used/full PPE bags and sharps containers that are full.
What is a "Biohazard Red Barrel" in the soiled utility room.
It is the first link in The Chain of Infection.
What is "An Infectious/Causative Agent"?
It is the type of isolation used for a patient with Covid.
What are "Special Enhanced Airborne Precautions"?
A needle was found on the patient's food tray. This is what should be done with it?
What is "Put it in a sharps container"?
It's the term used in healthcare to cover all bloodborne microbes, bacteria, viruses or microorganisms that can make you sick.
What are "Pathogens"?
True or false? A patient's family member does not have to wear PPE in the facility when their loved one is on precautions as they have already been exposed multiple times to them at home and again in the hospital emergency room prior to admission here.
What is "False"? PPE must be worn by everyone, at all times, for any reason whatsoever while in an isolation room.
it's a term used for the portion of the chain to describe a way for the disease to spread.
What is "Mode of Transmission"?
It is the type of isolation placed on a patient with Clostridium Difficile/Infectious Diarrhea.
What is "Special Enteric Contact Isolation"?
You do this if you have been stuck by a needle used by a person that your pretty sure has no infection.
What is "Seek medical attention & immediately file an incident report"?