BEDMAKING
Which type of patient/resident is at most risk of entrapment?
Confused
A person develops an infection after being admitted to a health care agency. The person has?
A healthcare associated infection
What is the number one thing a healthcare worker can do to prevent the spread of infection
Wash your hands
You rip a glove during a procedure, what should you do?
Remove gloves, perform hand hygiene and don a clean pair of gloves
When drying your hands, start at the?
fingertips and work up to your forearms.
What is the purpose of a toe pleat?
It prevents pressure on the toes from top linens.
Where are items sterilized?
Autoclave
What type of equipment is needed for contact precautions?
Gloves and Gown
A drug that kills microbes that cause infections is?
An antibiotic
When removing dirty linen, do you roll the linen towards your body or away from your body?
Away from your body
When would an open bed be used?
Newly admitted people arriving by wheelchair
What is the difference between medical asepsis and sterile?
Sterile is absence of all microbes
Where does a local infection occur?
A body part
Persons needing Transmission-Based Precautions often experience?
Lonliness
When making a bed, what is a bath blanket used for?
used to cover a resident during the making of an occupied bed.
When making an occupied bed for someone who does not have bed rails, what is needed for safety
A second person
When are transmission based precautions used?
People who have or may have certain infections
A disease caused by pathogens that can spread easily to others is?
A communicable disease
After completing work with a resident in isolation, the nurse assistant should remove the dirty isolation gown when?
Before leaving the patient's room
What order do you remove PPE
Gloves, Gown, Mask
After making an occupied bed, what are 2 very important safety things you should do?
Bed in lowest position and call light in reach
When using chemical disinfectants, you need to wear?
Utility gloves
Standard precautions apply to?
All persons
Which can contaminate your skin when removing gloves?
Touching a glove to an ungloved hand
A symptom indicating that a resident has an infection is...
Skin is warm to touch