Isolation/Transmission based precautions
This type of isolation includes N95 respirators and negative pressure isolation room
What is Airborne isolation?
A general term that applies to any one of the following: 1) handwashing with plain (nonantimicrobial) soap and water); 2) antiseptic handwash (soap containing antiseptic agents and water); 3) antiseptic handrub (waterless antiseptic product, most often alcohol-based, rubbed on all surfaces of hands); or 4) surgical hand antisepsis (antiseptic handwash or antiseptic handrub performed preoperatively by surgical personnel to eliminate transient hand flora and reduce resident hand flora)
What is hand hygiene?
A coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms
What is antimicrobial stewardship?
How long you are supposed to wash your hands when washing with soap and water
What is 40-60 seconds?
Gloves, gowns, face shields, foot covers, masks, respirators
What is PPE?
Airborne precautions, droplet precautions, and contact precautions
What are transmission-based precautions?
In general, bacteria that are resistant to one or more classes of antimicrobial agents and usually are resistant to all but one or two commercially available antimicrobial agents (e.g., MRSA, VRE, extended spectrum beta-lactamase [ESBL]-producing or intrinsically resistant gram-negative bacilli)
What are MDRO's?
The only MDRO for which effective decolonization regimens are available
What is MRSA?
How long you are supposed to rub your hands together when using alcohol-based hand sanitizers?
What is 20-30 seconds?
When do you don PPE?
What is upon entering a patient's room?
These precautions are intended to prevent transmission of pathogens spread through close respiratory or mucous membrane contact with respiratory secretions
What is droplet precautions or droplet isolation?
A term that is derived from two Greek words "nosos" (disease) and "komeion" (to take care of) and refers to any infection that develops during or as a result of an admission to an acute care facility (hospital) and was not incubating at the time of admission.
What is a nosocomial infection or hospital-acquired infection?
This is an enzyme made by some bacteria that prevents certain antibiotics from being able to kill the bacteria. The bacteria then become resistant to the antibiotics, making them an MDRO.
What is an ESBL (Extended-spectrum beta lactamase)?
This type of illness/bacteria requires hand washing with soap and water instead of alcohol-based hand rub
What is C. Difficile?
When do you remove PPE?
What is right before exiting the patient's room?
This type of isolation is used for patients infected of colonized with VRE, C. difficile, noroviruses and other intestinal tract pathogens, or RSV
What is contact precautions/isolation?
Cuts, punctures, nicks and gashes caused by medical instruments or other sharp objects
What are Sharps injuries?
Patients with these MDRO's can be removed from isolation, according to FRMC's MDRO discontinuation policy, after the treatment regimen in completed and/or 1 negative culture of same site as any and all previous positive cultures. (3 responses, you get credit if you can give me 2)
What is MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), ESBL’s, and Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae?
True or false: If you use gloves, hand hygiene is not necessary or the opposite, if you use hand hygiene gloves are not necessary
False
HBV - Hepatitis B virus
HCV - Hepatitis C virus
HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus
What are common bloodborne pathogens?
These include: hand hygiene; use of gloves, gown, mask, eye protection, or face shield, depending on the anticipated exposure; and safe injection practices. Recently added are: Respiratory Hygiene/Cough Etiquette, safe injection practices, and use of masks for insertion of catheters or injection of material into spinal or epidural spaces via lumbar puncture procedures (e.g., myelogram, spinal or epidural anesthesia).
What is Standard Precautions?
Persons with the flu are most contagious when?
What is during the first 3 days of their illness?
When can a C-Dif patient's contact isolation be discontinued according to FRMC's MDRO discontinuation policy?
What is when the patient has 1 negative C-dif stool culture and if patient is free of symptoms, including cramping?
WHO's 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene
What are:
before touching a patient, before clean/aseptic procedures, after body fluid exposure/risk, after touching a patient, and after touching patient surroundings.
The only bloodborne pathogen there is an immunization for
What is hepatitis B?