Infection Prevention
Treating all blood and bodily fluids as if they are infectious.
What is Standard Precautions?
A place where organisms (virus, bacteria, etc.) can survive and replicate.
What is a reservoir?
Documenting in the patient's words
What are quotation marks used for in documentation?
The artery used for manual blood pressures.
What is the brachial artery?
Correct order for donning PPE
What is: Hand Hygiene, Gown, Mask, Goggles or Face Shield, Gloves
The first step in a Needlestick Injury
What is washing with soap and water for 15 minutes?
The providers conclusions, including what they think is going on with the patient.
What is Assessment in a SOAP note?
What diastolic blood pressure measures.
An infection obtained due to contact with the healthcare system.
What are Nosocomial Infections?
Precautions used when respiratory or mucosal secretions can hang in the air.
What are Airborne Precautions?
Forms of examination used in patient assessment.
What are Auscultation, Percussion, Palpation and Manipulation?
Reasons not to take an oral temperature.
What are: under 5 years old, coughing, unconscious or confused, recent facial or oral surgery?
Requires a standard mask and Faceshield or goggles.
What are Droplet Precautions?
A healthcare worker taking care of a patient with Influenza wears a face mask while in the patient room. The ________ is disrupted in the chain of infection.
The Portal of Entry is disrupted in the chain of infection.
Patient reports nausea and vomiting x3 days.
What is a symptom?
What Sp02 measures.
What measures the percentage of available hemoglobin that carries oxygen?
Employer responsibilities according to the Bloodborne Pathogen Standard.
What are an exposure control plan, PPE, free Hepatitis B vaccine (if needed) and a log of sharps injuries.
Getting enough sleep, good nutrition, receiving vaccinations, etc.
What can be done to prevent a person from being a "Susceptible Host"?
Redness extends beyond patient R right, onto forearm.
What is a sign?
Heart Rate 103, Respiratory Rate 17, Blood Pressure 129/88
What is: Tachycardia, Eupnea and Elevated Blood Pressure