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Tell me where you can locate PPE if it was needed.
Exam rooms, storage/inventory rooms/labs
When would you choose to use use soap vs hand sanitizer and vise versa?
Soap and water: when hands are visibly soiled, before eating, after using the bathroom or performing a procedure. Hand sanitizer: routine tasks
How to you perform Hand Hygiene and what are considerations you should take when performing it?
20 sections. Ensure all areas of your hands are scrubbed, especially areas often missed (under nails, palms, between fingers). hand sanitizer should be scrubbed for 20 seconds and until dry.
* What are the 5 moments of Hand Hygiene and why are they important?
1. Before touching a patient
2. Before clean/aseptic procedure.
3. after body fluid exposure.
4. after touching a patient.
5 After touching the patient's surroundings.
before and after glove use
Importance is health care workers important moments where hand hygiene should be performed. These moments have a higher chance of disease transmission or contamination, for the safety of the employee and the patient.
What is a respirator? What type of respirators does AHC have?
A respirator is a face mask or hood-like mask that provides increased protection against airborne particles. AHC has N95 and PAPR.
Show me how to activate the eye wash station and tell me the recommended time for an eye flush
The recommended time is 15 minutes or as indicated by SDS
What is the appropriate response to chemical or Blood-Borne Pathogens exposure?
Eye wash for 15 minutes; or more indicated by SDS, SDS look-up for first aid measures; leadership notification, completion of Ethics Point, and notification to Employee Health.
What is the purpose of the SDS? Please locate at least one chemical you use without difficulty or delay and tell me the [section of the SDS].
Have staff look for a chemical and provide information from SDS section 4: first Aid measures, Section 7: Handling and storage, Section 13: disposal etc
Where are your spill kits located and how to you use them?
Labs and decontamination room
How do you Doff PPE correct sequence
Method1: Gloves, goggles/face shield, gown, mask/respirator, and Hand Hygiene Method 2: Gown and gloves (together), goggles/face shield, mask or respirator, Hand hygiene Refer to CDC sequence poster
How do you Don PPE in the correct sequence
Instructions: Gown, Mask/respirator, goggles/face shield, Gloves
* How do you don and doff, dispose of an N95, and recognize when refit testing is recommended?
Needed readjustment, noticing fogginess of eye glasses, change of facial shape (due to weight or other reasons)
Provide me with an example of something that is disposed of in a biohazard waste container and regular trash
Used speculums disposed in biohazard, anything saturated with blood in biohazard waste
What is the purpose and location of the medication and supply segregation chart?
Use of segregation chart
What is the purpose of 5.2.8 Cleaning and Disinfection of Facilities & Equipment (Cleaning and disinfection tool)?
Employees should know this is a resource they are able use to determine the frequency of cleaning surfaces and equipment (after each patient/use, daily, monthly, etc).
What PPE is worn during an aerosolizing procedure?
Gown, N95 mask, Gloves, Eye Protection