HAIs
Patients acquire this HAI from a foley catheter.
What is a urinary tract infection (CAUTI)?
What is sepsis?
C. difficile requires this type of precaution.
What are contact precautions?
This antibiotic is also known as "Z-Pak"
What is Zithromax or Azithromycin?
This is the most critical intervention for preventing HAIs and transmission of organisms and disease.
What is hand hygiene?
Infections individuals acquire while receiving treatment for another condition in a health care setting.
What is a hospital-acquired infection?
or what is a healthcare-associated infection?
What is slow heart rate?
Use this precaution for patients known or suspected to be infected with pathogens transmitted by respiratory droplets.
What are droplet precautions?
What is vancomycin?
The contact time for Sani-Cloth or "purple top" wipes.
What is 2 minutes?
This is due to an overgrowth of the bacteria in patients' gut during or after antibiotic therapy.
What is C. difficile?
Lactate greater than _______ indicates the patient is in severe sepsis
What is 2?
This precaution is necessary for bed bugs.
What is standard precautions?
Physicians will typically order this type of antibiotic for sepsis.
What are broad-spectrum antibiotics?
What time-frame should an antibiotic be initiated in a patient diagnosed with sepsis?
What is 60 minutes?
The majority of CLABSIs are due to this type of line in a non-ICU setting.
What are PICCs?
When someone has severe sepsis, their chances of survival drop by almost 8% for every _____ that goes by without treatment (Sepsis Alliance, n.d.).
Varicella Zoster requires this type of precaution.
What is airborne precautions?
This antibiotic is given before certain types of surgery to prevent infections.
What is ceftriaxone?
This type of infection is one of the hardest to treat.
Name 3 patient characteristics that increase the risk of an SSI (surgical-site infection).
What are: poor nutritional status, excess weight, smoking, diabetes, and/or age?
What 4 interventions would you anticipate being ordered on a patient with a diagnosis of sepsis.
What are: a lactate, IVF, blood cultures (prior to antibiotics), and antibiotics.
Gown, mask, face shield, gloves.
Penicillins are likely to kill the natural flora in the GI, therefore making the patient more susceptible to?
What is C. difficile
What are the 4 types of infections.
What are viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic infections?