General knowledge
_____ precautions are used for all patient care
What is standard?
T/F: It is ok to wear the same gown between two rooms under contact precautions
What is FALSE?
____ precautions should be implemented whenever an MDRO (e.g. C. auris, CPOs) or C. diff are suspected.
What is Contact?
Patients' movement outside of their rooms should be limited to ______ while under contact precautions.
What is medically necessary purposes?
What order should you remove your PPE when exiting a patient's room when contact precautions are in place?
What is....
1. shoe covers
2. gown and gloves together
3. perform hand hygiene
4. remove eye protection
5. remove mask/respirator
6. perform hand hygiene again
(In summary, in a way that avoids cross contamination)
This organism is a yeast that tends to be multi-drug resistant and represents a major threat due to its potential for silent transmission from colonized individuals.
What is Candida auris?
Who all should be involved in infection control and prevention at your institution?
What is everyone?
Effective infection control and prevention is entirely reliant on buy-in at all levels of administration, clinical personnel, environmental services, etc.
When done caring for a patient with contact precautions in place, when do you remove your PPE?
What is BEFORE exiting the patient's room?
What 2 events generally need to occur for C. diff infections to take hold?
What is...
1. Disruption of the patient's microbiota (i.e., normal flora)
2. Ingestion of C. diff spores via the fecal-oral route (i.e., exposure)