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Break The Chain
Clean Me Up Scotty
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Famously Sick
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Name the most common type of healthcare-associated infections, accounting for more than 30 percent of healthcare-associated infections reported by acute care hospitals?
What is urinary tract infection?
100
The single most important practice to reduce infectious agent transmission.
What is hand hygiene?
100
The following definition, the amount of time the surface must remain "wet" with disinfectant for it to be effective, is used to describe what during the disinfectant process.
What is the kill time?
100
I am a gram positive organism that is catalase positive, coagulase positive and oxacillin resistant. I can be isolated from many places, each year I cause thousands of cases and most often confused with a "spider bite".
What is MRSA?
100
This infectious disease has plagued the most United States Presidents. Thirteen to exact!
What is malaria?
200
The following core strategies are: Insert catheters only for appropriate indications, Leave catheters in place only as long as needed, Ensure that only properly trained persons insert and maintain catheters, Insert catheters using aseptic technique and sterile equipment (acute care setting), Following aseptic insertion, maintain a closed drainage system, Maintain unobstructed urine flow Practice hand hygiene and standard (or appropriate isolation) precautions according to CDC HICPAC guidelines are used to for prevention of what.
What are strategies for CAUTI prevention?
200
This type of PPE must be worn when touching blood or body fluid, touching or performing digital exams of mucous membranes, touching non-intact skin, performing venipuncture or other vascular access procedures, handling items or surfaces soiled with blood or body fluids.
What is gloves?
200
When using the Super Saniwipes (Purple Tops), the surface must remain wet for this long in order to kill the bacteria on the surface.
What is 2 minutes?
200
A patient admitted with a cough, bloody sputum, weight loss, night sweats and an upper lobe infiltrate should be suspected of having this infection and placed on this precaution.
What is TB and airborne?
200
Nelson Mandela, Ringo Starr and Carlos Santana have all had this bacterial infection at some point during their life.
What is tuberculosis?
300
Why is it important to remove an unnecessary urinary catheter?
What is the patient cannot have a CAUTI if they do not have a urinary catheter?
300
This precaution is designed to reduce the risk of transmission of microorganisms from both recognized and unrecognized sources of infection. Every patient, everytime.
What is standard or universal precautions?
300
The disinfectant type of Saniwipe that is used when a C. diff patient is suspected or confirmed and how many minutes must the surface remain wet in order to be effective?
What is bleach based and four minutes?
300
A 2 year old female is admitted on the Pediatric unit with a positive RSV test. What type of transmission based precautions should she be placed on?
What is droplet and contact precautions?
300
An estimated 170 million people worldwide are infected with this disease. Mickey Mantle, Etta James, David Crosby, and Pamela Anderson are a few famous people who have gone public with their diagnosis to raise awareness.
What is Hepatitis C virus?
400
The patient has gross hematuria, urinary obstruction, urologic surgery, decubitus, I & O patient management or hemodynamic instability, No Code/Comfort care/Hospice Patient, or immobilization due to physical constraints.
What is the patient meets the criteria for requiring a urinary catheter?
400
Various types of protective attire that are used separately or in combination to provide barrier protection to personnel.
What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
400
When using the AF3 Saniwipes (Grey Tops), the surface must remain wet for this long in order to kill the bacteria on the surface.
What is three minutes?
400
Mrs. Pitt presented on your floor with a fever, a positive influenza test and you must place her on which precaution.
What is droplet?
400
A sexually transmitted disease that killed the following people Al Capone, Ferdinand Magellan, Florence Nightingale, Ivan the Terrible, King Henry VIII of England, and Vincent van Gogh.
What is syphilis?
500
When the patient does not meet any of the HOUDINI criteria, the nurse should do this.
What is remove the catheter?
500
Standard precautions are used on every patient, every time. In addition to standard precautions, Tanner Health System uses these three transmission based isolation types.
What is airborne, droplet, special enteric and contact?
500
Hand hygiene is performed using this when a patient is suspected or confirmed for C. diff.
What is soap and water?
500
In the menu of multi-drug resistant organisms, this is the new kid on the block often resulting in high morbidity and mortality requiring this type of isolation precaution.
What is CRE and Special Enteric?
500
This viral pathogen has caused a pandemic that has killed millions worldwide. Freddie Mercury, Robert Reed, Liberace are a few of the famous names of people who have been diagnosed with this virus.
What is HIV?