Infection Control

Precaution Types

100

A patient who has MRSA would be placed on ______ precautions.

Contact.

200

A patient who has Measles would be placed on ______ precautions.

Airborne

300

A patient who has influenza would be placed on ______ precautions.

Droplet

400

A patient who has C-diff would be placed on _______ precautions.

Enteric.

500

A patient with MRSA always needs to be on precautions. True/False

True

Preventing Infection

100

The borders of a sterile field are considered ______.

Non-sterile.

200

You have a patient that requires a foley catheter, you know that this can be a ______ and ______ for infection.

Portal of Entry and Exit.

300

________ can be a source of infection if we do not clean properly or take with tubing to prevent contamination.

IV or Central Line

400

While preparing for a sterile procedure you notice that the nurse touches a non-sterile object with sterile gloves, your next step would be...

Inform the other RN of break in sterile procedure. 

500

You are preparing to insert a foley catheter and are going to use the bedside table as your surface. What is your first step?

Clean bedside table and allow to dry.

Nursing Considerations

100

You are performing oral hygiene on a patient ______ and possibly goggles should be worn.

Gloves.

200

Your patient's CBC just returned and shows a WBC of 18 and Bands of 3. Your next intervention would be ________.

Notify the MD.

300

You are educating your patient on hand hygiene, they should use _________ and if not near a sink can use hand sanitizer.

Antimicrobial soap.

400

A patient with influenza would like to have visitors but wants them to remain safe while visiting. You advise they should remain ______ feet from the bedside.

3 feet.

500

While obtaining a blood culture you want to make sure that you do the following to prevent contamination.

Wash hands and wear clean gloves.