Standard Precautions
These precautions are used with every client, every time.
What are Standard Precautions?
Hands should be washed for at least this many seconds.
What is 20 seconds?
PPE stands for this.
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
Ignition, Grow, Fully Developed, Decay (Burnout).
What are the stages of fire?
This number should be called during a fire emergency.
What is 911?
Blood, saliva, urine, and other body fluids should be treated as this.
What is potentially infectious?
Hand hygiene must be performed before and after this.
What is client care?
These should be worn when there is potential contact with blood or body fluids.
What are gloves?
The three elements that must be present for a fire to start (also known as the Fire Triangle).
What are Oxygen, Heat, and Fuel?
After residents are safely evacuated, staff should report to this pre-determined location.
What is the designated meeting area?
Used needles and lancets must be placed in this container.
What is a sharps container?
Soap and water should be used when hands are visibly this.
What is dirty or soiled?
This PPE protects your eyes from splashes.
What are goggles or a face shield?
The acronym R.A.C.E stands for this.
What is Rescue, Alarm, Confine, Extinguish?
During a tornado warning, clients should move to this safest area of the home.
What is the basement or an interior room on the lowest level?
Standard Precautions are designed to prevent the spread of these.
What are infections and diseases?
These three commonly missed areas should be scrubbed during handwashing.
What are thumbs, fingertips, and between fingers?
Gloves should be changed between these.
What are clients or care tasks?
The "ABC" stands for this type fire extinguisher.
What is Class A (wood/paper), Class B (flammable liquids), and Class C (electrical) fires?
A tornado watch means this.
What is conditions are favorable for a tornado to develop?
After exposure to blood or body fluids, staff should immediately wash the area and do this.
What is report the exposure?
Hand sanitizer should contain at least this percentage of alcohol.
What is 60%?
After removing gloves, staff should always do this.
What is perform hand hygiene?
Name all four steps of P.A.S.S.
What are Pull, Aim, Squeeze, and Sweep?
During an evacuation, a client becomes anxious and refuses to move. What should staff do?
What is use calming techniques and follow the client's behavior support plan?