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Infection (handwashing, MRSA, Cdiff, isolation types) Flashcards

1
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How to do effective hand washing?

A

Wetting, soaping, lathering and applying friction under running water

  • for at least 15 seconds
  • then rinsing & adequate drying
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When would you NOT use alcohol based rubs? What do you use instead?

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  • Visibly soiled hands
  • Hands that feel sticky
  • Just going to bathroom

*use soap and water hand washing instead

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3
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T/F: C.diff you can wash hands with alcohol based rubs

A

F

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4
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What nursing actions do you need to wash your hands prior to?

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Before inserting eye drops, ointments, or contact lenses

*can irritate, cause burning, and redness

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5
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Who gets chlorehexedine?

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For hand washing in caring for patients that are high risk for infection (immunocompromised)

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MRSA

How is it spread? Ex?

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Direct contact

Ex: indwelling catheters, VAD, ET tubes in hospital and community setting

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7
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Tx for MRSA?

A

Vancomycin

Linezolid

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8
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Prevention for MRSA?

A

Health teaching is the best way to decrease incidence

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9
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Community associated MRSA

Who does this cause infection in?

A

Health, non-hospitilized people

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10
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Community associated MRSA

Health teaching= best way to decrease incidence…Teach what?

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  • Frequent hand hygiene
  • Avoid close contact with people with infectious wounds
  • Avoid large crowds
  • Avoid contaminated surfaces
  • Good overall hygiene
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11
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Community associated MRSA

Tx for community associated?

A

Minocycline

Doxycycline

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C. diff

What is this associated with?

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Antibiotic use, esp. in older adults

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C. diff

What is an example of an antibiotic that causes this?

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Fluoroquinolone antibiotics like ciprofloxacin

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C. diff

How is it spread?

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Indirect contact with inanimate objects

*med equip. commodes

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15
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C. diff

How is it confirmed?

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Stool culture

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C. diff

What suspects you to a pt. having c.diff?

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3 or more liquid stools per day for 2 days or more

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17
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C. diff

Signs and symptoms?

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Diarrhea
Fever
Abdominal pain and cramping

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18
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C. diff

DOC?

A

Oral metroidazole and vancomycin

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19
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C. diff

What is the controversial tx?

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Fecal bacteriotherapy

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20
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C. diff

What happens with fecal bacteriotherapy?

A

Transplant stool with normal, health flora into infected pt

Donor stool is liquified with saline, filtered and administered by either NG tube, fecal enema, or colonoscopy

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21
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C. diff

Results of fecal bacteriotherapy have been very positive

22
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MRSA or C.diff

Spread by vascular access devices

23
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MRSA or C.diff

Tx= minocycline and doxycycline

A

Community associated MRSA

24
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MRSA or C.diff

Spread by VAD

25
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MRSA or C.diff

Spread by medical equip

26
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MRSA or C.diff

Spread by indwelling catheter

27
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MRSA or C.diff

Tx= vancomycin and linezolid

28
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MRSA or C.diff

Spread by commodes

29
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MRSA or C.diff

Spread by direct contact

30
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MRSA or C.diff

Spread by indirect contact

31
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MRSA or C.diff

Tx= Oral metroidazole and vancomycin

32
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What is standard precautions for?

A

All body secretions, excretions are considered infection

33
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Examples of standard infection?

A

Anthrax
HIV
Botulism
Small pox

34
Q

What precaution?

RSV

35
Q

What precaution?

Shingles

36
Q

What precaution?

Meningitis

37
Q

What precaution?

Scabies

38
Q

What precaution?

MRSA

39
Q

What precaution?

Flu

40
Q

What precaution?

Plague

41
Q

What precaution?

Chicken pox and small pox

42
Q

What precaution?

Measles

43
Q

What precaution?

Scabies

44
Q

What precaution?

Mumps

45
Q

What precaution?

VRE

46
Q

What precaution?

C. diff

47
Q

What precaution?

Lice

48
Q

What precaution?

Pertussis

49
Q

What precaution?

TB

50
Q

What precaution?

Need negative air pressure room

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