PPE
What is hand hygiene?
This is the type of precaution used for Influenza
What are Droplet Precautions?
This is the easiest and simplest way to prevent the spread of infection
What is hand hygiene?
This is the name of the document that can be referenced for transmission- based precautions that is sent out by the IP team every morning
What is an Isolation List
These individuals are responsible for high-touch surface disinfection
EVERYONE
True or False: PPE may be used outside of the patient room
False (unless maintaining the airway)
Type of precautions for Hepatitis
What are Standard Precautions?
In the NICU, all healthcare workers while in the NICU patient care area must adhere to ____ ______ ___ _____
What is Bare Below the Elbows?
True or False: Hand hygiene must be performed after removal of gloves only
False; hand hygiene must be performed you put on your gloves and after you take them off.
This is the contact time for the PDI/ Sani-Cloth germicidal wipes (Purple)
2 minutes
These items of PPE are necessary for patients on Contact Precautions
What are gown and gloves
Isolation precautions fall into two general categories: Standard and ________-_______
What is Transmission-based
True or False: Ancillary staff who are in the unit sporadically need to adhere to BBE (Bare Below the Elbow)
True: Any time you are in the NICU patient care area, you are expected to adhere to all hand hygiene and BBE guidance to protect this very vulnerable population
These are the three C's to consider when transporting an isolation patient
What is clean, covered, and continent.
This is the contact time for the PDI/ Sani-Cloth Bleach germicidal wipes (Orange)
4 minutes
This is the first item in the sequence of donning PPE
What is a gown?
Per Kendall's Multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) policy, if you are unable to isolate a patient, you may cohort if both patients have the same _____ from the same _____.
What is the same organism from the same source?
When caring for a patient with suspected or confirmed Clostridoides difficile (CDIFF), this is what should be used to perform hand hygiene
What is soap and water?
This is where the Infection Prevention office is located
What is second floor administration?
If a patient on isolation is discharged, this is who should remove the isolation sign
EVS removes the sign once it's terminally cleaned
In the sequence of removing PPE, this item, the most contaminated, comes off first
What are gloves?
Each patient on isolation precautions must have their room _______ cleaned after being discharged or if moving to another room.
What is terminally cleaned?
Leapfrog Requirement: These are the number of hand hygiene observations per month needed to be completed on units with average daily census of >15 patients using HandWatch application?
What is 200?
These are the names of the four infection preventionists of Kendall's Infection Prevention program
What is Cinthia, Katerina, Marianella, and Sabrina?
These are the two device-related types of HAIs
What are CLABSI and CAUTI (Central-Line Associated Bloodstream Infection and Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection)