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When should a healthcare workers utilize gloves as well as hand hygiene?
When coming into contact with body fluids or when a patient is in certain types of isolation
What PPE must you put on to enter a patients room on droplet precaution ?
Mask
Who should you use standard precautions for ?
Everyone
This microbe leaves the patient feeling achy, fever, respiratory congestion and coughing.
Influenza
Chain of infection
What is your nursing responsibility when you see another healthcare worker not using good hand hygiene?
Speak up and remind them to use hand sanitizer or wash their hands
What PPE is required to enter the room of a patient with TB or Coronavirus?
N95 or higher respirator
the type of isolation required for a patient who has fecal incontinence that has been tested and determined to have C DIFF
Contact
This microbe lives in the colon but often becomes an infection in the urinary tract
E coli
Where do microbes grow?
Reservoir
When a patient with an infection is going home, what can you teach them to prevent further or a new infection (teach prevention)?
Wash your hands
What type of PPE will you put on to care for a patient with a MRSA wound infection that is draining excessively?
Gown and gloves
A patient having a disease that is spread by particles living on surfaces after the patient coughs, sneezes, or talks requires what type of isolation?
droplet
This microbe is a bacteria that causes severe diarrhea.
C Diff
Where do microbes move?
List 2 times you should wash your hands vs use sanitizer
When visibly soiled
before you eat
after using the restroom
after you remove gloves
When you are putting on full PPE, What piece do you put on first?
gown
What are the key components of standard precautions?
Hand hygiene and gloves
This type of microbe causes ringworm, athletes foot, and yeast infections.
Fungus
The person whose body the organism has entered
Susceptible host
When using soap and water, how long should you wash your hands?
15 seconds
When you removing PPE, which do you take off first ?
Gloves
Which isolation requires a negative pressure room to allow the air to be circulated out of the room so many times per hour?
Airborne
This type of bug can be treated by antibiotics.
Bacteria
The method by which the organism leaves the reservoir
Portal of exit