Hand Hygiene
This includes:
Before Patient Contact
After Patient Contact
Before Aseptic Procedure
After Body Fluid Exposure
After Environment
What are the 5 Moments of Hand Hygiene
This is the Wet Time for Purple Top PDI Wipes.
What is 2 minutes?
A nurse enters a patient's room and notices the central line dressing is lifting at the edges and no longer intact. This should be done immediately.
What is change the dressing?
This device increases a patient's risk of developing a CAUTI.
What is an indwelling urinary catheter (Foley)?
How often should staff members assess peripheral IV sites for signs of infection?
What is Every Shift?
This is utilized when cleaning your hands after caring for a patient with C. Diff.
What is Soap and Water?
This is the Wet Time for Grey Top PDI Wipes.
What is 3 Minutes?
A patient's central line is no longer needed for treatment. Removing timely helps reduce the risk of developing this healthcare-associated infection.
What is a CLABSI?
The drainage bag should always be kept in this position to prevent urine backflow.
What is below the level of the bladder and off the floor?
True or False: Blood cultures to test for MRSA should only be obtained when a Central Line is present.
What is False?
Clean, Natural, and Short are the requirement for this body part
What does policy state fingernails need to be?
This is the Wet Time for Orange Top PDI Wipes.
What is 4 Minutes?
You get an order from Attending to Collect x2 sets of blood cultures on a patient. What is the first thing you should do?
What is escalate to Infection Prevention?
This should be performed before and after handling a urinary catheter or drainage system.
What is hand hygiene?
True or False: Missing CHG bathing opportunities can increase a patient’s risk for MRSA.
What is True
Clean with Sanitizing Foam is used when this happens
What is used to clean hands that are not visibly soiled?
This is cleaned with Orange or Purple PDI Wipes, then with Grey-Top Wipes
What is electronic equipment?
During rounds, a patient has a PICC line but is only receiving oral medications and no longer requires IV therapy. This should be discussed immediately.
What is central line necessity and line removal?
This daily practice helps reduce CAUTI risk by limiting unnecessary catheter days.
What is assessing catheter necessity and removing it as soon as possible?
Which patient, based on societal factors, could potentially be highest risk for MRSA?
Who is a Patient who is unhoused and has a long history of IV drug abuse?
Place in pockets, re-use, or wash
What you don't do with used gloves
This is cleaned with Orange or Purple PDI Wipes, then with alcohol swabs
What is Glucometer and Tele connector sites?
A patient is admitted to your unit with a visibly dirty HD Cath but they will be going to Dialysis first thing tomorrow morning. What should you do next?
What is change the dressing?
According to CDC NHSN surveillance criteria, a urinary catheter must have been in place for more than this number of consecutive days for a UTI to qualify as catheter-associated.
What is 2 consecutive days (with placement day counted as Day 1)?
How many days can we safely test for MRSA once a patient is admitted to an inpatient unit?
What is the first 3 Hospital Days?