Basic Infection Prevention & Control
The most effective ways to prevent the spread of germs
What is hand hygiene? ✋🏻💦
Name the types/modes of transmission-based precautions
What is contact, droplet, and airborne 🛑
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/basics/transmission-based-precautions.html
The agency that approves disinfectants
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 🌎
https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-registration/selected-epa-registered-disinfectants
Areas most often missed when using alcohol-based hand rub
What is the thumbs, fingertips, and between the fingers? 👍🏻🖐🏻
This precaution includes:
1. Hand hygiene
2. Environmental cleaning and disinfection
3. Injection and medication safety
4. Risk assessment with use of PPE based on activities being performed
5. Minimizing potential exposures
6. Reprocessing reusable medical equipment between each patient and when soiled
What is Standard precautions 🏥
The type of precautions indicated for care of a C. difficle infected or suspected patient
What is Contact Precautions
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/isolation/appendix/type-duration-precautions.html#C
The PPE used when caring for isolated or quarantined SARS-CoV-2 patients/residents
What is gloves, gown, N95 or higher level respirator, and eye protection 😷
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/infection-control-recommendations.html
Define cleaning
What is the the removal of foreign material (e.g., soil, and organic material) from objects, normally accomplished using water with detergents or enzymatic products. 🧼🧽
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/disinfection/cleaning.html
This GI tract pathogen forms spores that are not killed by alcohol-based hand rub
What is Clostridioides difficile or CDI 💩
The technique that is applied when preparing and administering medications
What is aseptic technique 💉
The type of precaution indicated for care of a patient infected with or suspected of having measles (rubeola)
What is Airborne Precautions 💨
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/isolation/appendix/type-duration-precautions.html
This non-clinical form of surveillance has been explored to monitor the presence of SARS-CoV-2 shed by people in communities with and without symptoms
What is wastewater surveillance 💩💧
https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/surveillance/wastewater-surveillance/wastewater-surveillance.html
An inanimate object that can be the vehicle for transmission of an infectious agent (e.g., bedding, towels, or surgical instruments)
What is a fomite 🧹🎳
The range of alcohol content by volume permitted in alcohol-based hand rub?
What is 60-95% 🤚🏻
An epidemiological tool (e.g., database, list) to compile case information in an organized manner
What is a line list 📃
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson2/section1.html
The type of precaution indicated for the care of patients known or suspected to be infected with pathogens transmitted by large particles via the respiratory route that are generated by a patient who is coughing, sneezing, or talking.
What is Droplet Precautions 💦
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/basics/transmission-based-precautions.html
Pfizer-BIONTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson
What are FDA approved or authorized SARS-CoV-2 vaccine manufacturers 💉
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines.html
The individual that devised a rational approach to disinfection and sterilization of patient-care items and equipment using a classification scheme so clear and logical that it has been retained, refined, and successfully used by infection control professionals and others when planning methods for disinfection or sterilization
Who is Earle H. Spaulding and the Spaulding Criteria 👨🏻
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/disinfection/rational-approach.html
Minimum horizontal spacing for alcohol-based hand rub dispensers
What is no less than 48 inches 📏
A documented process is conducted by identifying and reviewing potential risk factors for infection related to the care, treatment, and services provided and to the environment of care in a specific healthcare setting
What is a risk assessment 📋
The type of precaution indicated for the care of patients infected with scabies
What is Contact Precautions 🔬🔎
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/isolation/appendix/type-duration-precautions.html
How many SARS-CoV-2 variant classifications are there
What are four 4️⃣: Variants Being Monitored (VBM), Variant of Interest (VOI), Variant of Concern (VOC), & Variant of High Consequence (VOHC).
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/variant-classifications.html
The amount of time a disinfectant needs to sit on a surface, without being wiped away or disturbed, to effectively kill germs
What is the contact time or dwell time ⏳
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/disinfection/glossary.html#C
There are restrictions on how many times you can apply an alcohol-based hand rub
What is false 🚫