Cleaning and Disinfecting
Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI's)
Hand Hygiene
Communicable Diseases
Potpourri
100
This provides guidelines to follow when cleaning & disinfecting reusable surgical instruments, medical devices, and other medical equipment/materials.
What are the IFUs (Instructions for Use)?
100
This should be removed as soon as it is no longer needed when implementing Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infection (CLABSI) prevention strategies.
What is the central line?
100
During handwashing, it is important to rub your hands together with soap & water for at least this many seconds.
What is 20 seconds?
100
Grouping patients infected with the same organism to confine their care to a single area when private room capacity is no longer available.
What is a cohort or cohorting?
100
Improper prescribing of this drug can put patients at risk for C.diff infections (CDI).
What are antibiotics?
200
What position should hinged items be in to allow proper cleaning when decontaminating?
What is the open position?
200
Dependent loops, lack of securement, & raising a patient's urinary catheter bag above their bladder level are all risk factors that increase the likelihood of this.
What is a Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI)?
200
After contact with this spore forming bacteria, you must use soap & water (not hand sanitizer).
What is Clostridioides difficile (C. diff)?
200
This type of isolation precautions requires the door of the patient's room to be shut to maintain negative pressure.
What is Airborne Infection Isolation (AII)?
200
Non-Critical Devices that come into contact with INTACT skin require this level of disinfection type.
What is Low Level or Intermediate Level Disinfection?
300
The database that clinical leaders/managers can access to find details for your department on instructions for use (IFU).
What is OneSOURCE?
300
This bacteria can live on hard environmental surfaces for several months requiring sporicidal agents for effective disinfection.
What is Clostridioides difficile (C. diff)?
300
The main pathway of germ transmission in healthcare.
What are the hands?
300
It is rare to see a COVID-19 reinfection in this time period (in days) from the initial positive test or onset of symptoms.
What is 90 days?
300
These are monitoring devices commercially prepared with highly resistant spores that test the effectiveness of the sterilization method in use.
What are Biological Indicators?
400
When transporting these items, a puncture-resistant, leak-proof, closable container must be utilized & labeled as biohazard.
What are contaminated instruments?
400
This is the most common pathogen found in Surgical Site Infections (SSI)s.
What is staph aureus?
400
Chipped nail polish, long nails, artificial fingernails, or nail extenders may tear gloves & can harbor this.
What are pathogens/bacteria?
400
The term used when germs are on the body but do not make you sick. Symptoms are not present.
What is colonization?
400
This symbol on a package with a date indicates...
What is the date it was manufactured?
500
This system defines the minimum level of disinfection or sterilization required for 3 categories of medical devices based on intended use.
What is the Spaulding Classification System?
500
Raising the head of the bed (unless contraindicated), is an intervention to prevent this HAI type.
What is a ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP)?
500
This product is most effective for reducing the number of germs on the hands of healthcare providers.
What is alcohol-based hand sanitizer?
500
This virus can live for up to 2 hours in an airspace after an infected person leaves an area.
What is the measles virus?
500
A multiple-dose vial should be discarded once it has been opened after this many days.
What is 28 days (or according to the IFU-whichever is shorter)?