Infection Control
Hand washing or gel with gloves is also referred to as:
What is standard precautions?
Patient’s subjective experience of shortness of breath is called this
What is dyspnea?
A heart rate in adults lower than 60 per minute
What is bradycardia?
Protected Health Information can come one of these three forms
What is oral, written, electronic?
Building rapport with a patient and asking about how the patient in CICARE
What is connect?
Infections like chicken pox and tuberculosis require this level of precautions.
What is airborne precautions?
When the nares move excessively during period of dyspnea
What is nasal flaring?
This occurs when adult blood pressure is 90/60 or lower
What is hypotension?
The accrediting body for hospitals is called.
What is JCAHO: Joint Commission for the Accreditation in Hospital Organizations?
Stating when you will be coming back to the patient’s room is what in CICARE?
What is exit?
What is droplet precautions?
This happens when patients are SOB lying down.
What is orthopnea?
This occurs when the RR is 10 or less breaths/minute
What is bradypnea?
3 protected pieces of information covered by HIPAA
What is name, address, photo, address, MRN
In CICARE when answering patient’s questions, this is called what?
What is ask?
For infections spread by skin to skin contact or surface contact with bacteria like MRSA, use this level of precaution.
What is contact precautions?
What a patient has worsened SOB while lying down, often at night.
This occurs when the patient's temperature is higher than this degrees in Celsius
What is 38.3 C?
HIPAA exemptions include these three areas.
What is TPO? (Treatment, Payment, health care Operations?
During the Introduce portion, you would do these 2 things
What is give your name and job title?
What is reverse isolation or protective isolation?
On inspiration, list 3 muscles around the neck or back that are used as 'accessories' when patient is SOB.
What is scalenes, sternocleidomastoid, trapezius, pectoralis?
A decrease in rate and depth which decreases alveolar ventilation
What is hypoventilation?
A patient safety event that results in death, permanent harm, or severe temporary harm.
What is a seminal event, per JCAHO?
The 6 letters of CICARE stand for these 6 words
What is Connect, Introduce, Communicate, Ask, Respond, Exit?