Hand Washing
True or False: Good hand hygiene and wearing gloves are essential elements of infection control.
TRUE
When should you change your mask?
Whenever they become soiled or wet, between every patient
True or False: Wearing gloves can be considered as a substitute for hand hygiene?
False, it should NEVER be considered as a substitute for hand hygiene.
True or False: I can use prescription glasses as a substitute for goggles as eye protection?
False: prescription eye glasses are NOT acceptable by themselves as eye protection, because they do not provide appropriate protection from splashes around the top and sides of glasses.
True or False: I can use CaviWipe's to disinfect my hands instead of hand sanitizer?
False: You use CaviWipe's to wipe down your UTILITY GLOVES.
True or False: I can turn the water off with my bare hands after performing hand hygiene?
FALSE
What do masks protect you from?
aerosols, splatter and sprays
In relation to the protective barriers when should utility gloves be used?
To remove surface protective barriers.
True or false, protective eyewear should have tinted lenses?
false
When should dental professionals wear protective clothing?
Whenever there is a chance for contamination of skin or other clothing exists.
What do we do Before and After protective barriers?
Hand hygiene
True or False: Single use barriers, such as masks, should be discarded immediately after use?
TRUE
Name 3 types of gloves used by health care providers for patient care.
1. Non-sterile examination gloves 2. Synthetic gloves (nitrile or neoprene) 3. Sterile procedure gloves.
When you should disinfect yours and your patients eyewear?
In between patients.
True or false: Surface protective barriers can be anything in the office that can serve as a cover, including paper towel or beach towel.
False: These barriers should be moisture-proof such as plastic bags or plastic sheets (ex: barrier film, tape, tape or saran wrap; light and tray sleeve; etc.).
How long do you perform hand scrubbing?
while singing your ABC's or 20-30 seconds
True or false, surgical masks have a perfect seal when worn?
False, unfiltered exhaled and inhaled air can still pass through
True or False: When the glove is torn during the procedure I can double glove before returning to the patient.
False: If the glove is torn then you must perform hand hygiene before donning new set of gloves.
What do goggles protect healthcare practitioners from?
Goggles are used to protect health team members from splashes of blood, body fluids, secretions or excretions which might become in contact with the mucous membranes of the eyes.
Can you take home your contaminated clothing and linens for laundering?
NO!
While performing hand hygiene, where must we not forger to wash?
Between your fingers, under your nails, the tops of your hands.
True or False: You can remove your mask before removing your gloves when discarding your PPE?
False, you remove your gloves, gown, hand hygiene, then goggles, MASK, and hand hygiene.
When should you change your gloves?
When there is a tear, visibly soiled, or between every patient.
True or False: I may remove goggles at the end of treatment by grasping the front of the lenses?
False: you need to grasp the side arms of the goggles without touching the front of the goggles, and pull forward.
List the steps of removing PPE?
1) Remove gloves; 2) Remove gown; 3) Perform hand hygiene; 4) Remove eye protection/ goggles; 5) Remove mask; 6) Perform hand hygiene.