A routine practice strategy that contains microbes through cleaning or by limiting them to a patient bed area/room.
What is source control.
100
this solution is more effective at killing microbes than soap and water.
What is ABHR?
100
These PPE items are needed when you are doing peri-care on a compliant patient.
What are gloves
100
this additional precaution is used for all pediatric patients with diarrhea, and adults with infectious diarrhea or diarrhea NYD.
What is contact precautions
100
you would report these symptoms (when new to patients) to the nurse as soon as you are able.
What are diarrhea, nausea/vomiting, cough, fever.
200
A routine practice strategy where patients and staff are taught, and encouraged, to cough into their elbows.
What is respiratory cough etiquette
200
washing your hands with soap and water versus ABHR is recommended for which organism?
What is CDifficile
200
These PPE items are needed when you are emptying a foley?
What are gloves?
200
This additional precaution is used for patients with a fever not yet diagnosed.
What are droplet precautions?
200
This organism commonly is the cause of gastrointestinal outbreaks.
What is Norovirus
300
A routine practice strategy that determines what beds patients are placed in, or how they enter the building.
What is patient flow?
300
Our ABHR contains this amount of alcohol.
What is 70%
300
These PPE items are required when you are disconnecting a foley during a catheter change?
What are gloves, gowns, mask
300
Streptococcal pyogenes causes these health phenomena, so patients with confirmed or suspected strep A pyogenes are placed on droplet for the first 24 hours of appropriate antibiotic therapy.
What are necrotizing fasciitis and toxic shock syndrome?
300
to be declared an outbreak, there must be evidence of ______?
What is transmission (aka spreading)?
400
a routine practice strategy where the rates of compliance are observed, then posted on the wall.
What is the Hand Hygiene program?
400
To effectively kill the norovirus, ABHR must be at least what percentage of alcohol?
What is 62%
400
when removing a patient's used meal tray you would.... (finish the sentence).
Wash your hands before and after
400
What additional precaution (to supplement airborne) are used for measles, disseminated shingles, and chicken pox but not needed for TB.
What are contact precautions?
400
In the flu epidemic of 1918 to 1920, more patients died that American soliders did in the first world war. What did they die of?