Communicable Diseases
This is often known as food poisoning or the stomach flu.
What is Norovirus
Goggles, gloves, gowns, mask
What are types of PPE
This is the easiest and most effective way to prevent the spread of infection.
What is washing your hands.
Before you enter a patients room, when you finish with cares, when passing meds, before handling food you should
What is wash your hands.
These are ways of doing your work to lower the chance of spreading disease. They consist of hand hygiene, protective equipment, care of the environment and safe injection practices.
What is Standard Precautions?
This is a type of staph infection. It is a very common germ that 1 out of 3 people have it, either on their skin or in their nose and lives harmlessly. It will only cause an infection if it goes in the body.
What is (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) MRSA?
You should wear a mask when?
The illness or disease is airborne.
What is the chain of infection otherwise known as the chain of transmission?
-Wet hands with water
- Apply soap
- Rub hands together for at least 15 seconds, covering all parts ofthe hand, especially fingertips and fingernails
- Rinse hands under running water and dry with a disposable towel
- Use the towel to turn off the faucet
What are the steps to washing your hands
The part of the body you cough into or sneeze into is this.
What is your elbow?
These are symptoms of influenza
What are a Fever, runny nose, sore throat, cough, head ache, fatigue, body aches?
-Before touching a resident’s non-intact skin, open wounds or mucous membranes(eye, nose, mouth)
-Before performing care that could result in contact with bodily excretions
-Caring for any invasive device, such as a catheter
-Having contact with items that could be contaminated such as dressings,incontinence products, dirty laundry or trash
What is when to wear gloves.
Microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites, that can cause infectious disease are this part of the chain of infection.
What is the infectious agent?
These are things to know about sharps containers.
What are needle,razors or glass go in them, Make sure to only fill up to the line and not overfill it. Do not force sharps into the container.
Carefully remove used gloves so that the outer surface never touches your skin
Wear gloves that fit – gloves that are too small or too big can tear
Wash your hands after glove removal
Never wear the same gloves for the care of more than one resident!
Never reuse gloves!
What are the general rules of wearing Gloves?
The most common way to get this is through contaminated foods. The most common symptom is diahhrea. Antibiotics are generally not used for this. Drinking plenty of fluids helps it and it normally goes away on its own.
What is Escherichia Coli (E. coli)
These are microorganisms such as viruses or bacteria that are carried in blood and can cause disease in people. There are many different kinds including Hepatitis B (HBV), Hepatitis C (HCV) and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
What are a blood bourne pathagens?
These are modes of transmission of the infectious agent.
What are airborne, contact or droplet transmission?
You must use soap and water to wash your hands when
Wear gloves
Carry linens away from the body so that the clothes aren’t contaminated
Wear personal protective equipment if necessary to keep safe
Immediately clean and change clothes if they become contaminated
Roll soiled linens up
Handle contaminated laundry as little as possible
Use separate containers for clean linen and dirty linen
Change linens as often as needed to keep residents clean
Wash the laundry of residents who have infectious organisms separate from other residents’ laundry
What are safe laundry procedures?
This is the most common infecious disease in the US and is a viral infection and cannot be treated with antibiotics.
What is the common cold.
This means to put on and use PPE properly to achieve the intended protection and minimize the risk of exposure and removing PPE in a way that avoids self-contamination.
What is Donning and Doffing?
By doing these things: cleaning your hands frequently, staying up to date on your vaccines (including the flu shot), covering coughs and sneezes and staying home when sick, following the rules for standard and contact isolation, using personal protective equipment the right way, cleaning and disinfecting the environment, ...you do this?
What is break the chain of infection?
It is ok to use hand sanitizer when.
When soap and water is not available.
These are things in the kitchen to control cross contamination.
What are different cutting boards, Changing gloves in between foods, washing hands. Clean and sanitize all surfaces.