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Who Cleans What?
So You Think You Know CDiff?
Test-A-Palooza
100
Cleans the IV Poles inside patient rooms
Who is Environmental Services?
100
A Hospital-Acquired C-Diff infection adds up to an extra ___days in the hospital (increasing Length of Stay): A: 5 B: 12 C: 21
What is C? Source: CDC.gov
100
True or False: Every patient with diarrhea should be tested for C-Diff.
What is FALSE?
200
Responsible for cleaning computers used in patient care areas.
Who is Nursing/Assistants?
200
True or False? A patient can be colonized with C-Diff but not actively infected.
What is TRUE? *source: CDC.gov
200
True or False: A physician order is required to send a stool sample for CDiff testing.
What is TRUE?
300
Cleans the equipment "owned" by the unit (this equipment does not go down to the equipment room for cleaning). Example: Hoyer Lift, ICP monitor, Coretrak
Who is nursing/nursing assistants? (May also be rehab team if they are using the equipment).
300
How long can C-Diff spores live on hard surfaces: A. Three Days B. Five Weeks C. Nine Months
What is C? Source: CDC.gov
300
Leads to inappropriate designation of hospital-acquired C-Diff.
What is a positive C-Diff result from a patient who is colonized but not infected.
400
Place the equipment in a grey bag and secure with "bleach me" tape before placing in soiled utility room.
What is the process for removing equipment from a known C-Diff isolation room for cleaning?
400
In 2011, C-Diff was responsible for the deaths of this many people: A. 29,000 B. 15,000 C. 55,000
What is A? Source: New England Journal of Medicine
400
Loose stools 3 or more times per day for at least 1-2 days without laxative use.
What is clinically significant diarrhea?
500
Cleans the monitor cables inside patient rooms in Critical Care Units.
Who is Environmental Services?
500
Reduction in this CAI is 20% of the Corporate Financial Incentive
What is C-Diff?
500
True or False? A positive test on an uninfected patient leads to over treatment and antibiotic resistance.
What is True?