Infection Prevention and Control

Question 1

When should you clean your hands?

Answer 1

1. Before and after contact with patients.
2. Before and after wearing gloves.
3. After contact with blood, fluids, non-intact skin, or mucous membranes.
4. After contact with equipment.
5. Before and after eating.
6. After using the bathroom.
7. After sneezing or coughing.

Question 2

How do you properly clean your hands?

Answer 2

Using soap and water or approved hand sanitizer.
-When hands are visibly dirty, contaminated, or soiled; wash them with soap and water for 15 seconds.
-If hands are not visibly soiled, use and alcohol based hand sanitizer for routinely decontaminating hands. Rub hands until hand sanitizer has dried.

Question 3

Wide you need to wash her hands before donning and taking off gloves?

Answer 3

Gloves may have tiny holes through which infectious agents could into her and contaminate skin. It is also possible to contaminate your gloves with your hands when donning gloves, and it is possible to contaminate your hands with your dirty gloves when taking them off.

Question 4

When should you change your gloves? Why?

Answer 4

Gloves are changed when moving from dirty to clean on the same patient or in the same patient environment to prevent organisms found in the dirty area from spreading to a clean area.

Question 5

What policies are in place to maintain cleanliness in your clinical spaces?

Answer 5

We do weekly field days led by our leadership and record results in the Weekly Field Day Tracer log online or emailed to the Quality Management team.

Question 6

When our patient privacy curtain’s changed?

Answer 6

When visibly soiled or stained and following discharge of an isolation patient. Curtains are routinely changed by facilities every year or 6 months per a set schedule. For curtain changes, we call 760-458-1756.

Question 7

How often do you clean patient exam tables or equipment?

Answer 7

After each patient encounter or if visibly soiled.

Question 8

How do you know equipment is being cleaned properly?

Answer 8

I refer to the Manufacturer’s Instruction For Use (MIFU) online at onesource/docs.com the log in is “nhcp” and password is “nhcp1”

Question 9

How do you treat and transport soiled instruments to SPD for reprocessing?

Answer 9

1. Using proper PPE, I remove gross bioburden from the instruments with water.
2. All instruments are opened and nylon brushes are used to remove visible bioburden.
3. Instruments are placed open in a red BIOHAZARD LABELED instrument transport bin.
4. Instruments are thoroughly coated with Pre-Klenz Gel.
5. The lid is secured and instruments are transported to the dirty side of SPD.

Question 10

What should you do if your patient has a multiple drug resistant organism (MDRO)

Answer 10

Patients with an MDRO should be in a private room in contact precautions. Gown and gloves should be donned on room injury, regardless of reason or length of time you will be in the room. As much as possible, Quitman is dedicated and remains in the patient room until discharge.

Question 11

How should patient food be handled?

Answer 11

Cover food from the cafeteria on the way to the ward.
Stored food and separate refrigerator from medications.
Labile any stored food with date and patients name.