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Course Overview Part 1 Flashcards

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Chain of Infection

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1: Pathogen Agent
2: Reservoir
3: Portal of exit from reservoir
4: Method of transmission
5: Portal of entry to the susceptible host
6: Susceptible host

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5 moments of hand Hygiene

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  • Before touching a patient
  • Before clean/aseptic procedure
  • After body fluid exposure risk
  • After touching a patient
  • After touching patient surrounding
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Donning PPE

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Step 1: Hand hygiene
Step 2: Gown/Apron
Step 3: Mask/Respirator
Step 4: Protective Eyewear
Step 5: Hand Hygiene
Step 6: Gloves

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Doffing PPE

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Step 1: Gloves
Step 2: Hand Hygiene
Step 3: Gown
Step 4: Hand Hygiene
Step 5: Protective Eyewear
Step 6: Hand Hygiene
Step 7: Mask or Respirator
Step 8: Hand Hygiene

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Manual Handling

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  • Protecting you back
  • Back is vulnerable to manual handling injuries
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Positioning Patients High fowlers

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Positioning Patients Semi fowlers

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Positioning Patients lateral

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Positioning Patients Trendelenburg

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Positioning Patients Supine

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Positioning Patients Prone

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Standard Precautions

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First-line approach to infection and prevention & control, applied to everyone regardless of their infectious status.

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Transmission-Based precautions

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Used in addition to standard precaution for paient’s with a known or suspected infections

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How to break chain; Infectious Agent

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  • Medication “herd immunity”
  • Antimicrobial stewardship
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How to break chain; Reservoir

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  • Eliminate the sources
  • Food, water, animals, people, environmental surfaces
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How to break chain; Portal of exit

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  • Prevent organisms leaving source
  • Cough ettiquette, manage spills, care with body fluids (PPE)
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How to break chain; Method of transmission

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  • Contact, Droplet, Airborne, vector
  • Standard/ Transmission precautions, stay at home if sick
18
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How to break chain; Portal of entry

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  • Care with open wounds, IOV sites, urinary catheters, respiratory tract, broken skin, surgical incision
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How to break chain; Susceptible host

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  • Protect acutely ill, very young and frail elderly with low immunity
  • Vaccination
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Standard Precautions Examples

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  • Hand hygiene
  • Environmental cleaning
  • Handling and disposal of sharps
  • Handling of waste and linen
  • Aspetic non-touch technique
21
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Mode of transmission routes

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  • Contact
  • Droplet
  • Airborne
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Transmission-Based precautions Examples

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  • PPE dedicated to mode of transission
  • Patient-dedicated equipment
  • Single room/cohort of patients
  • Air handling requirements
  • Enhancing cleaning and disinfection of patient environment
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Fluid Balance (too much in/too much out)

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We need to maintain a reasonable fluid balance in out body
- Too much fluid in: Oedema (swelling)
- Too much fluid out: Dehydration

24
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ISOBAR Acronym

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  • I: Introduction
  • S: Situation
  • O: Observation
  • B: Background
  • A: Assessment
  • R: Recommendation
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Subjective Data

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Qualitative data. Apparent to only the person affected. Symptoms

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Objective Data

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Quantitative Data. Detectable by an observer, can be measured or tested against a standard. Signs

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Assessing Respirations

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  • Rate
  • Depth
  • Pattern/Rhythm
  • Quality/Sounds
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Assessing Pulse

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  • Rate
  • Rhythm
  • Strength
  • Equality
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Assessing Consciousness AVPU

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  • A: Patient is spontaneously ALERT
  • V: Patient will respond to a VERBAL stimulus
  • P: Patient will respond to a PAINFUL stimulus
  • U: Patient is UNRESPONSIVE
30
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Pyrexia/Fever

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Body temperature above the usual range

31
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Febrile

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A person who has pyrexia

32
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Afebrile

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A person who has a normal temperature

33
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Hypothermia

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Body temperature below 35

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