You got to wear it (PPE)
The first step in medical and surgical asepsis.
What is perform handwashing?
An isolation precaution used to protect clients who have an increased susceptibility to infections, are receiving chemotherapy or are immunosuppressed or neutropenic.
What is Protective Isolation?
Contributing factors for falls.
What are older age, impaired mobility, cognitive and/or sensory impairment, bowel and bladder dysfunction, and adverse effects of medications & history of falls?
The characteristic of lesions for Herpes simplex.
What are painful vesicles?
The prescribed room for clients in protective isolation.
What is a ventilated/positive pressure room?
What is the MASK?
The PPE used to protect the nurses for clients with varicella
What is the MASK?
What is External Disaster?
The mode of transmission for pneumonia.
What is close contact with mucous membranes or respiratory secretions (droplet precautions)?
The other name is for contact precaution.
What is enteric precaution?
What is a gown, mask, goggles or face shield & gloves?
What is a private room with monitored negative airflow (air exchange and air discharge through HEPA filter)?
A preventable situation that leads to a client's lifetime of disability.
What is the sentinel event?
The period from the time elapsed before exposure to the onset of the signs and symptoms.
What is the incubation period?
The isolation precaution for clients with Vancomycin resistance enterococci.
What is contact precaution?
The last step in the medical and surgical asepsis.
What is handwashing?
For this type of precaution hand hygiene must be performed with soap and water to kill spores.
What is extended contact precaution (C. Diff)?
The rescue equipment was placed at the bedside of a client on seizure precaution.
What are oxygen, oral airway, and suction equipment?
The period of infection is when there is a gradual recovery of health and strength after illness or injury.
What is convalescence?
This precaution is applied to wound drainage, fecal incontinence or other bodily discharges.
What is contact precaution?
Order of PPE removal.
What are the gloves, goggles or face shields, gowns, and masks?
FOR THE CARE OF ALL PATIENTS IN ALL HEALTHCARE SETTINGS
What is Standard Precautions
The first step to take when an accident happens.
What is assessment - client?
The phases of the infection process.
What are the incubation period, prodrome, illness & convalescence?
Immunization is considered part of this level of prevention.
What is primary level of prevention?