Isolation Precautions (U1)

Question 1

What are isolation precautions?

Answer 1

Guidelines to prevent the spread of communicable disease

Question 2

What are the two types of isolation precautions?

Answer 2

Standard/routine and extended/transmission based

Question 3

What are extended precautions?

Answer 3

Based on what we know to be communicable (droplet, contact, airborne)

Question 4

What are contact precautions?

Answer 4

Patients placed in a private room/room with a patient with an active infection via same organism
- Gloves and gown worn (gown removed before leaving room

Question 5

What are airborne precautions?

Answer 5

Patients must be in a private room with door kept closed
- Air in the same room is discharged to outdoors air/filtered
- Anyone entering wears N95