Cleaning Basics
This term describes the removal of visible dirt and debris.
What is cleaning?
This type of isolation is used for Rhinovirus/Enterovirus.
What is contact and droplet precautions?
This is the recommended time to wash your hands with soap and water.
What is 15 seconds.
True or False: Dust can introduce allergens into the air, transport bacteria, and increase healthcare-acquired infections (HAI’s).
What is true?
An infection acquired within the hospital or related to a healthcare procedure.
What is a healthcare-acquired infection?
This is the "wet time" for Oxivir 1 while disinfecting equipment.
What is one (1) minute?
This type of isolation is used for Norovirus.
What is GI precautions?
This is appropriate for cleaning your hands when they are not noticeably soiled.
What is alcohol-based hand sanitizer?
This is why it's important to replace torn mattresses, chair covers, wheelchairs, and other patient care items.
What is torn surfaces can harbor bacteria and other microorganisms, which the cleaning solution cannot get to.
This is the single best method to prevent the spread of infection.
What is hand hygiene?
This is why we should avoid using adhesive tape on equipment.
What is the equipment cannot be thoroughly cleaned, and the adhesive leave residue that can harbors pathogens.
When a patient in isolation is discharged, this is still required until the room is terminally cleaned to prevent transmission to staff or other patients.
What is PPE?
When working with a C. difficile patient or coming into contact with their environment, healthcare providers should use this to wash their hands.
What is soap and water?
This date is printed on the Oxivir 1 tub because after that date, the product's active ingredient could degrade or cease to function effectively.
What is expiration date?
When transporting a patient this type of PPE should not be used.
What are gloves?
This is the time required for bleach wipes to kill C. difficile spores.
What is three (3) minute wet time?
This type of isolation is used for a patient who has an Carbapenem-Resistant bacteria (CRE).
What is Enhanced Contact precautions?
According to the CDC, this reduces the amount of diarrhea-related illnesses and respiratory infections, which frequently prevents antibiotic overuse—the single most important cause contributing to antibiotic resistance worldwide.
What is hand washing?
These types of tiles with stains suggest a leak, which might lead to infection control issues.
What is ceiling?
This is the area around a sink in which contamination could occur, to objects within that space, from the splash associated with handwashing or other activity being done in the sink.
What is the "splash zone".
The numbers of wipes needed to clean an Accucheck.
What is two?
There are two types of isolations used for a patient who has Varicella (Chickenpox).
What is airborne and contact?
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) these are the five moments of hygiene that health-care workers should clean their hands.
What is:
1. Before touching a patient
2. Before clean/aseptic procedures
3. After body fluid exposure risk
4. After touching patient
5. After touching patient surroundings
This spore can survive on inanimate surfaces for five months.
What is C. Difficile?
Keeping the doors of these rooms closed, which include specific patient rooms, environmental closets, and soiled utility rooms, creates an important barrier to the transmission of infectious contaminants.
What is a negative pressure room?