Infection Control
What is the most important step we can take to prevent the spread of infections?
What is hand hygiene?
The phone number I call when I need to report symptoms, or an employee needs to report symptoms.
What is Employee Health Hotline? 785-364-9619
It is important for managers/staff to know and understand your expected roles in order to be able to react to a wide spectrum of emergencies. This plan has all the specifics...
What is the Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)?
The only vaccine required for employment at HCH, unless a medical/religious exemption is on file.
What is an Influenza vaccine?
Hand Hygiene, PPE, Safe Injection Practices, Cleaning and disinfecting all are part of this type of Infection Prevention precautions.
What is Standard Precautions?
An employee notifies you that they just gave a shot to a patient, and while placing the needle in the sharps container they poked themselves with the used needle. You tell the employee to do this first before anything else.
What is washing with soap and water?
Kelcie attends one of your staff meetings to discuss what your roles are during a Tornado. A scenario is verbally given, Kelcie facilitates questions and discussion. This exercise/drill meets one out of the two annual requirements.
A 8th grade student is coming for a job shadow, this needs to be completed and routed to Kelcie
What is a Required Health Documentation for Shadow/Job Observation form?
The "Hand Hygiene Police" in the facility submit these forms monthly to Kelcie.
What is the Hand Hygiene Observation Form?
Melissa/Kelcie will schedule a new employee, who is considered clinical staff, their first week on the job to complete this test.
What is a N95 FIT test?
What is a Disaster Call Tree?
It is Nov. 3rd and if you have this approved document on file you will need to mask from Nov. 1- Mar. 31st.
What is a Religious or Medical exemption?
You notice an employee exits a patients room with gloves still on their hands, you educate them on proper infection control practices, removing gloves when exiting a patients room, etc. This has you thinking that it might be time to do this to ensure all staff know best practices...
What is a Competency Check?
An employee notifies you that they will need to be out for at least 2 weeks following a procedure. Manager/Supervisor will need to be sure employee turns in this document to Employee Health prior to coming back to work.
What is a Return to Work form?
Management Staff should, at minimum, complete these two FEMA/ICS trainings.
What is ICS 100 & ICS 700?
An employee brings you their updated Tdap documentation, because they just cut their hand and received the vaccine when they went in for stitches. You route to the Employee Health nurse, to be filed in...
What is an Employee Health File?
A patient has been in the hospital for multiple days due to treatment of a wound. Upon admission, cultures were negative for MRSA. On day 8, patient started with a fever, unknown origin. Wound cultures were collected again, and found to have MRSA. IP Nurse would need to report this as a ....
What is a Healthcare-Acquired Infection?
An employee tripped over a cord while they were vacuuming their office, they fell and hit their head on their desk, and now is in the ER getting stitches. Employee notified you, their manager what happened, and asked you to make sure you fill out this form included in their Employee Injury Packet.
What is the Supervisor's Accident Investigation Form?
This is the only position ALWAYS activated during events that interrupt normal business operations.
Who is the Incident Commander?
A patient came in and exposed the Business Office with Measles. Kelcie looks in those employees health file, only two employees have documentation on file. Kelcie would be requesting those without documentation to get ...
What is a Titer?