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Infection Prevention
Environmental Cleaning
Specimen Collection
C.difficile
CAUTI
100

The bath/cleaning a patient with a central line should be given every day.

What is a CHG bath?

100
The process to be performed upon entrance and exiting the patient room (every patient, every time).
What is hand hygiene (foam in/foam out with alcohol or wash hands with soap and water)?
100
The proper place to collect a urine culture or urinalysis specimen from a foley catheter.
What is the sampling port?
100
Diarrhea, fever, loss of appetite, and abdominal pain.
What are the symptoms of C.difficile infection?
100

How often foley care should be performed.

What is every shift and PRN

200
The minimum time frame for hand washing with soap and water
What is 15 seconds?
200

Hand hygiene ONLY using soap and water

 What is the proper way to clean hands after exiting a c.diff room?

200

Where all specimens should be collected and labeled.

What is the bedside?

200

 The time limit to send a C.Diff sample before it is deemed Hospital Acquired.

 What is 3 calendar days from date of admission?

200
Condom catheter, in and out catheters, toileting program, and urinals/bed pans.
What are alternatives to foley catheters?
300

A list of common infections and what isolation precautions are needed for them.

What is on the back of the isolation signs?

300

Disinfectant used to clean a C.difficile patient's room.

What is bleach or sporicidal cleaner (Oxycide)?

300

C. Diff log

What must be completed before a C. Diff sample is sent to the lab? 

300

Laxatives, Antibiotics, Formed stool

What is exclusion criteria for a C.diff sample?

300

This protocol enables nursing to insert, maintain and discontinue the urinary catheter.

What is nurse driven urinary catheter protocol?

400

Required charting each shift that the patient is on isolation.

What is Isolation Activity and Isolation Education?

400

Contact/Wet time of Clorox bleach wipes.

What is 3 minutes?

400
It is NOT ok to collect a specimen for testing from the foley catheter bag (true/false)
What is true?
400

The first thing you should do when a C.diff sample is ordered. 

What is place patient on isolation?

400
The most effective way to prevent CAUTI.
What is using a urinary catheter only when necessary or not have a Foley.
500

The patient can be positive for  a HAI for MRSA in the blood without a central line present. (True/False)

What is True?

500

The contact/wet time for purple top PDI wipes?

What is 2 minutes?

500
Formed stool is an appropriate specimen for C. difficile testing (True or False)
What is False?
500

Two common ways C. difficile is transmitted in the healthcare setting

What are the patient's environment and healthcare worker hands?

500

Bag below bladder, Catheter secure, Collection bag less than 2/3 full, Drainage bag off floor, Sterile and closed system/seal unbroken, Tube Secured, Tubing Straight

What is the CAUTI Bundle?