Hand Hygiene/All Precautions
This is the minimum amount of time you should scrub your hands with soap and water.
20 seconds
Patients requiring airborne precautions must be placed in this type of room.
negative air pressure room
When within 3–6 feet of a patient on droplet precautions, you must wear this.
Surgical Mask
Gloves and this additional protective item are required when caring for a patient under contact precautions.
This term means “without infection” or “free of disease-causing microorganisms.”
asepsis
Which precaution type would be used for a patient with tuberculosis (TB)?
Airborne Precautions
Healthcare workers must wear this type of mask when entering a room of a patient with tuberculosis.
N95 or high level respirator
Name two illnesses that require droplet precautions.
influenza, pertussis, meningitis, mumps
Give two examples of infections that require contact precautions.
MRSA, C-Diff, Scabies, Ringworm
This process involves physically cleaning instruments to remove dirt, blood, or organic matter.
According to CDC guidelines, this is the single most important action to prevent the spread of infection in healthcare settings.
hand washing
Name two diseases other than TB that require airborne precautions.
Chicken Pox, Measles
Droplet precautions are used to prevent the spread of diseases spread through _______ droplets.
Respiratory
When should you wash your hands when seeing a patient on contact precautions.
Think: "foam in, foam out"
on the way in and the way out of the room. or before and after every patient.
This process destroys or inactivates most microorganisms, but not necessarily spores.
Disinfection/Disinfecting
A patient with MRSA in a wound should be placed under which type of precaution?
Contact Precaution
True or false:The door must remain closed at all times.
True
True or false: droplet precaution requires a negative air flow room.
True or False: Alcohol-based hand rub is always acceptable after leaving a contact precaution room.
false- seeing patients with C-Diff you have to wash with soap and water
A microorganism that causes disease is referred to by this term.
Pathogen
Briefly explain the difference between contact and airborne precautions. (Fill in the blank)
Contact precautions prevent transmission by ________; airborne precautions are for particles that remain in the ____ and require special masks like the _____.
Airborne precautions are used to prevent the spread of diseased transmitted through the ______, and remains suspended in the air for ________ periods of time.
air, long
Droplet precautions require private rooms or cohorting, and patient transport should only occur when and only if the patient is wearing a ________.
Surgical mask
True or false: Contact precautions allow for patients to share rooms IF they are both on contact precautions and infected by the same pathogen.
True: patients CAN be put in the same room IF they are both infected by the same pathogen.
a microscopic organism
microorganism