Aseptic Techinique Part 1 Flashcards
What is OSHA’s name?
What is it?
What does it do?
Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA)
Agency of Federal Government that establishes rules and regulations to protect workers in a variety of work environments including Healthcare.
Require Employers to provide needed equipment and education for safety within the workplace
What does the CDC do?
Establishes guidelines for the prevention of disease transmission.
The CDC mandates that its new policies are what?
Basis that is epidemiologically sound
Emphasize importance of all body fluids, secretions, and excretions in transmission of infectious agents
Adequate precautions for infections transmitted by airborne, droplet, contact routes of transmission
Who issues guidelines for the CDC?
Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee HICPAC.
CDC…Recommendations ranking Scheme.
Category IA
Strongly recommended for all hospitals
Strongly supported by well-designed experimental or epidemiologic studies
CDC Recommendations Ranking Scheme
Category IB
Strongly recommended for all hospitals
Reviewed as effective by experts and a consensus of HICPAC, based on strong rationale and suggestive evidence
Definitive scientific studies have not been done
CDC Recommendation Ranking Scheme
Category II
Suggested for implementation in many hospitals
Recommendations supported or suggested by
1.Clinical or epidemiologic studies
2.Strong theoretical rationale
3.Definitive studies applicable to some, but not all, hospitals
CDC REcommondation Ranking Scheme
No recommendation/unresolved issues
Practices for which insufficient evidence or consensus regarding efficacy exists
Define Isolation
Isolation is the separation and placement of patients in environments that reduce the potential for transmission of infectious microorganisms.
(There is a sign on the room door instructing healthcare workers how to prevent transmission)
Standard precautions are for whom?
Transmission-based precautions are for what?
All pts.
Preventing the spread of disease.
What 3 conditions together transmit an infection?
Source of infecting infectious agents
Susceptible host
Means of transmission for the infectious agent
Standard precautions are based on what philosophy?
all body fluids, nonintact skin, and mucous membranes may contain transmissible infectious agents.
What 5 host factors make pts more susceptible to infection?
Age
Underlying diseases
Certain treatments with antimicrobials, corticosteroids, immunosuppressive agents
Irradiation
Breaks in first line of defense mechanisms
What are the 5 modes of transmission
Contact Droplet Airborne Common vehicle Vectorborne
Define Nosocomial Infection
infection acquired in the hospital
