Safety/ Infection Control Flashcards
What is isolation?
It is the international separation and restriction of ill people with a confirm contagious, transmittable, and or infection/disease.
What are the basic principles of patient care and isolation?
– Understand how diseases are transmitted in what protective barriers to use
- proper, and constant use of hand hygiene before entering and leaving a patient’s room
– Disposable of contaminated PPEN supplies
– Protect people who are high risk of exposure during transportation from outside the patient’s room
What is PPE?
Personal protective equipment it includes gown, mask, our protection and gloves
What are the transmission?
The most common is contact, then you have droplet, airborne and special contact.
What is tier 1?
Standard precautions this is used on all patients like handwashing, wearing gloves, disposing of soiled linen and assuming everyone has a disease we don’t know about.
What is tier 2?
Expanded precautions patients who are or or suspected of being colonized with contagious transmittable pathogens (needs to be isolated, because infectious pathogen)
What are the steps for tier 2 expanded precautions?
Step one = orders
Step two =isolation cart “ PPE “
Step three = single use of equipment
Step four = door sign age
Step five = patient and visitor restrictions
Step six = notification of receiving unit
Contact precautions are what?
MDRO, pseudomonas, ESBLs, CREs, Acinetobacter, VRE,RSV,shingles (limited body part) , rotavirus, lice, scabies wounds, with no dressings or drainage
What are special contact precautions?
CDiFF known as clostridium Difficile
Diarrhea
What is droplet precautions?
Influenza, bacterial meningitis, and pertussis
What are airborne precautions? (negative air)
TB known as tuberculosis, varicella known as chickenpox, measles known as Rubeola, disseminated shingles ( widespread or immuno compromised patients )
What are the two different contact precautions?
Direct contact = person, to person
Indirect contact = person to contaminate an object to person
**Most common type is contact precautions
What should transporters do if a patient is on contact precautions.?
The transporters should put on clean linens and use Hydro peroxide wipes to clean anything that was touched.
What precaution should you take if your patient is on special contact? 
You wear a gown and gloves and you must wash your hands with soap and water
You must use bleach wipes for three minutes

What should a transporter do when a patient has special contact precautions ?
Place clean linen over the patient , use bleach wipes, and wash your hands.
