PPE/ IPC

Question 1

What is PPE

Answer 1

Personal Protective Equipment (Head, Eye, Hands, Hearing, Body) Protects yourself from infection.

Question 2

What is IPC?

Answer 2

Infection Prevention and Control aims to prevent harm by avoidable infections in healthcare settings. This can be done through various forms such as education, policies, audits and research.

Question 3

What is standard precaution?

Answer 3

It is practices that prevent the transmission of infectious agents. They are considered a basic form of caution used at all times, such as hand/ resp hygiene, and proper disposal of sharps/linen. PPE/ disinfectant

Question 4

What are 5 moments of hand hygiene?

Answer 4

1. Before pt contact
2. Before the procedure
3. After the procedure and exposure to bodily fluids
4. After pt contact
5. After touching the surroundings

Question 5

How is a risk assessment conducted in IPC?

Answer 5

Recent outbreak areas in NZ
Travelled to overseas high-risk countries.
Multiple Drug Resistant Organisms

Question 6

What are the IPC screening assessments used for?

Answer 6

MDRO, Influenza, COVID-19, Gastronterits

Question 7

What are the 3 MDRO risk types?

Answer 7

Low risk- Standard precaution (no transmission risk)
Med risk- Contact precaution (one or more transmission risk)
High risk- Be in contact precaution + single room iso (dedicated equipment)

Question 8

What things can cause transmission of infectious diseases?

Answer 8

Diarrohea fecal or urinary in cont
Indwelling devices (cathedere, stoma)
Antibiotic therapy

Question 9

What are the 4 types of contact precautions?

Answer 9

Contact- indirect/ direct transmission (eg. MDRO, Diahorea)
Droplet- (resp secretions/ mucus membrane eg influenza.
Airborne- suspended in air (COVID-19, Tuberculosis)
Complex- More than one type of contact precaution (eg. Droplet and contact Rhinovirus Norovirus)
Protective precaution is for someone immunocompromised.

Question 10

What is the order of Donning?

Answer 10

1. Hand hygiene
2. Gown
3. Mask
4. Gogles
5. Gloves

Question 11

What is the order of doffing?

Answer 11

1. Gloves
2. Gown
3. Gogles
4. Mask
5. Hand hygiene between each step

Question 12

Stages of infection:
1) Incubation
2) Prodromal
3) Illness
4) Convalesce

Answer 12

1- Interval where the pathogen enters the body
2- Onset of general s+s (pathogen is multiplying)
3- Pathogen specific s+s start
4- Acute s+s disappear and can take days to weeks for full recovery.