PPE Basics
You are caring for a patient on contact precautions. What PPE is required upon entering the room?
What are gloves and gown?
Contact Precautions - gown and gloves
This is the height of the table for a sterile field.
What is at or above waist-level?
You must use this solution to effectively kill clostridium difficile spores.
What is bleach?
You are caring for a patient on chemotherapy with significantly increased risk for infection, so you follow these precautions. (name of precautions)
What is protective isolation?
This type of mask is required for airborne precautions and must be fit-tested.
What is an N95 respirator?
You are caring for a patient with symptomatic influenza, so you follow these precautions. (name of precautions and required items/steps)
Mask & eye shield within 3 feet + gown and gloves
Items on the sterile field can not be any closer than this to the edge of the field.
What is one inch?
To prevent the spread of healthcare-acquired infections, this chemical is commonly used to bathe patients.
This is how high you hold a sterile solution when pouring onto your field.
What is 4-6 inches?
This is the FIRST step of PPE removal when exiting a room.
What is removing gloves?
You are caring for a patient with tuberculosis, so you follow these precautions. (name of precautions and required items/steps)
Reverse airflow room + N95/PAPR
You must do this when picking up something from the far side of your sterile field.
What is reaching from the side?
These bacteria are resistant to more than one class of antibiotics.
What are multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO)?
You understand these staffing/room requirements for a patient who is on protective isolation.
What is a positive airflow/private room, nurse not assigned to infectious patients, no flowers or fresh fruits/veg or humidifiers.
A nurse knows that she must do this is their hands are visibly soiled.
What is hand washing (soap and water)?
Droplet & airborne until lesions are all crusted.
This part of the gown is the only part considered non-sterile.
Patients are at risk for this when they are in isolation, as it is more work for visitors and staff to enter the room.
What is social isolation?
After opening and recapping a sterile solution, you must dispose of it after this amount of time.
What is 24 hours?
You are entering a patient's room that is not on any transmission-based precautions. You must follow these precautions for every patient.
What are standard precautions?
For a patient with shingles, they must be airborne, rather than contact, if they present with this.
What is disseminated (lesions on multiple areas of the body)?
C. diff (Clostridium difficile) is this type of infection because it spread to patients who have a weakened immune system.
What is an opportunistic infection?
When using an alcohol-based hand wash, it must be a minimum of this percent alcohol.