Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Flashcards
What are two reason patients become infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria?
- Not finishing antibiotics
- taking them when infected by a virus
What is the best way to break the chain of infection?
Hand hygiene
What is one way to help a person not destroy all the good bacteria in their body while they’re taking antibiotics?
By taking probiotics at the same time.
Airborne precautions:
- Negative pressure room with door closed.
- Health care providers wear N-95 respirator mask at all time in the room
Droplet precautions:
- Wear a mask
- Door may remain open
- Transmission is limited to close contact
Contact precautions:
- Use of barriers to prevent transmission
- Emphasize cautious technique
- Organism easily transmitted from patient to health care worker
You are the charge nurse on a 40 bed med/surg floor. ER calls with a person being admitted with the flu. You have no private rooms left. You would NOT put this patient in with which of the following?
A. Patient with hemoglobin of 9.8
B. Patient with a sodium of 122.
C. Patient with a WBC of 2200.
D. Patient with a platelet count of 500,000
C. Nutripeanic do not want to place a patient with the flu in there.
What are the signs and symptoms of the flu?
Fever, muscle ache, lethargy, anorexia.
What is the most important thing to teach a patient about antibiotics?
Take the dosage as prescribed and finish the whole prescription.
What does VRE stand for?
Vancomycin- Resistant Enterococcus
What does PRSP stand for?
Penicillin-Resistant S. pneumoniae
What is an example for Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae?
Klebsiella
-out break in California
What does C. difficile commonly cause?
nosocomial diarrhea
What does MRSA stand for?
Methicillin Resistant Staph Aureus
What does VRSA stand for?
Vancomycin Resistant Staph Aureus