Isolation
This type of isolation is needed for things such as MRSA, VRE, CRE, Scabies, Lice and has PPE requirement of gown and gloves.
What is Contact Isolation?
The Maintenance bundle for prevention of CAUTI includes:
Presence of foley order, Seal intact, Securement of foley with device, Foley bag below the bladder and not on the floor, Foley tubing without kinks or dependent loops, indication for foley q shift and ________________________q shift.
What is foley care?
Type of Isolation for suspect or confirmed active Tuberculosis
What is Airborne Isolation in a Negative pressure room?
Covid 19 patients require this type of Isolation precautions
What is Contact and Droplet with Eye Protection
Bird flu is found in birds, of course. But these animals can also be infected with Bird Flu or H5N1. Name 2.
This type of Isolation is needed for things such as tuberculosis, measles and disseminated shingles. PPE requirements are N-95 mask, Gown, and Gloves and may even require eye protection if active, productive cough.
What is "Airborne" Isolation
PPE to be worn in Measles cases
What is an N-95 mask, gown, and gloves
The difference between "latent" and "active" TB
What is "latent is inactive, no symptoms, not contagious. Active is sick and contagious"?
Covid 19 patients have precautions requiring gown, gloves, surgical mask or N-95, plus one other special piece of PPE.
What is "faceshields or eye goggles"?
This question should be on all healthcare facility screening forms to clue you in on the possibility of a patient with exposure to bird flu.
What is "Have you had any direct contact with sick or dead birds, poultry, or livestock?"
This type of Isolation is needed for things such as flu, mumps, meningitis and MDRO in the sputum. PPE requirements include surgical mask, gown, and gloves.
What is Droplet Isolation?
If a suspect measles presents to the ED, the first response by healthcare personnel is to....
What is: Ask the patient to step back outside if they are able, until someone comes back out in PPE to get them
Some common symptoms of tuberculosis
What is a cough lasting more than 3 weeks, coughing up blood, unintended weight loss and loss of appetite, and fever and night sweats?
This complication has been common among Covid 19 patients, especially in the early months of the covid outbreak. The scientific name for this is "Anosmia"
What is loss of smell
For the bird flu to be more virulent in humans, this would have to happen.
What is "genetic mutations"
Genetic mutations would allow the virus to spread rapidly among humans and cause a pandemic.
This type of Isolation is needed for things such as Clostridium difficile and Norovirus infections. PPE required is gown and gloves. Another special requirement is strict handwashing with soap and water instead of using the hand sanitizer
What is Strict Contact or Contact Enhanced Isolation
If a patient with suspect or confirmed measles is brought into the ED by EMS or unresponsive by private vehicle, where is patient immediately taken?
What is..EMS patient stays in ambulance until staff can safely transport w/pt masked, into isolated room or neg pressure
Private vehicle-mask is applied to patient and staff transport on stretcher to isolated room, preferably negative pressure room.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to be worn with suspect or confirmed TB
What is gown, gloves, N-95 resp mask and eye protection if active productive cough?
Covid-19 results can remain positive for up to 90 days without the patient being contagious to others. Patients diagnosed with Covid-19 who are hospitalized require isolation for this many days after onset of symptoms or first positive test, whichever is the earliest.
What is 10 days?
Our seasonal flu shots do include vaccination against the H5N1 Bird Flu
True or False
What is "False"
While specialized H5N1 vaccines exist in national stockpiles for pandemic preparedness, they are not available for the general public, and regular flu shots are not designed to protect against avian influenza.
This type of isolation is needed for things such as Covid-19 or M-Pox (formerly Monkeypox). PPE requirements include N-95 OR Surgical Mask, Gown, gloves, and eye protection with either goggles or a faceshield.
What is Contact and Droplet with Eye Protection (formerly called Enhanced Droplet) Isolation
Infected individuals spread the virus ______days before the rash appears and up to ______days after.
Patients with suspect or confirmed TB should not be transported outside of isolation room if possible. However, when it is necessary, the patient needs to have this type of mask on.
What is a regular surgical mask
The CDC recommends these strategies for preventing the spread of Covid-19
What is staying up to date with vaccines, practicing good hygiene, ensuring cleaner air (ventilation), wearing masks, and distancing. Additional measures include prompt testing, seeking treatment, and staying home when sick
Covid has killed more than 7.1 million people globally (1.2m in the US) with a mortality rate of 15% at the beginning to about 4-11% now. The mortality rate of a Bird Flu pandemic is predicted to be _______%.
A bird flu (specifically H5N1) pandemic is widely considered to be more dangerous than the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily due to a significantly higher estimated mortality rate. Bird flu (H5N1) has a history of causing severe illness in humans with a global fatality rate approaching 50% in known cases.