Week 1- Hand Hygiene and Standard Precautions, Documentation: Eval/Diag and Assessment, Joint Mobs Flashcards
HAND HYGIENE
HAND HYGIENE
What are HAIs?
Health care-associated infections
-Infections people get while recieving health care for another condition.
In American hospitals alone, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that HAIs account for an estimated ____ million infections and ________ associated deaths each year.
- 1.7 million
- 99,000 deaths
What is the most effective infection control measure in prevention of HAIs?
hand hygiene
What is the “patient zone”?
- patient
- surfaces and items that are temporarily and exclusively dedicated to him/her
What is the “health care area”?
all surfaces in the health care setting outside the patient zone
What are the key 5 moments for hand hygiene?
- BEFORE touching a patient
- BEFORE clean/aseptic procedures
- AFTER a body fluid exposure risk
- AFTER touching a patient
- AFTER touching a patients surroundings
What are the three things to avoid prolonged hand contamination?
- use the appropriate technique
- use an adequate quantity
- use for recommended length of time
Do gloves take the place of hand hygiene?
NO
- gloves neither alter nor replace the performance of hand hygiene
- Gloves should be removed and hand hygiene performed when indicated by the 5 moments of hand hygiene and clean gloves put back on
If medical gloves don’t take the place of hand hygiene, then what are the 2 reasons we use them?
- reduce risk of contamination of health-care workers hands
- reduce risk of germ dissemination to the environment and from worker to patient/ patient to worker/ patient to patient
What are the order of the 6 parts of the chain of infection?
- ) Harmful germ spread by contact (MRSA, Norovirus, C.diff)
- ) Hide/Grow/Multiply (GI tract, Nose, Wound)
- ) Way Out (Nose, Skin, Rectum, Urine)
- ) Going Mobile (HCW Hands, Surfaces, Equipment)
- ) Way In (Nose, Mouth, Wound, Devices)
- ) Next Person At Risk
What are standard precautions?
-Group of infection prevention practices applied during care of ALL individuals, regardless of suspected or confirmed infection status, in any health care setting.
Standard precuations assume that _____ blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions except sweat, non-intact skin, and mucous membranes may contain transmissible infectious microbes.
ALL
What are the 6 elements of standard precautions?
- Hand Hygiene
- PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)
- Resident Placement (single resident rooms, cohorting)
- Respiratory Hygiene/ Cough Etiquette
- Safe Injection Practices
- Textiles and Laundry Handling
What PPE to wear and when?
- PPE usage is based on the type of task being performed.
- Also whether or not anticipating contact with blood, and/or body fluids, or pathogen exposure
We wear gloves when there is any anticipation of contact in what 5 instances?
- ) Blood or body substances
- ) Mucous membrane
- ) Non-intact skin
- ) Indwelling device insertion site
- ) Handling potentially contaminated items
We wear gowns when there is anticipation of contact in what 3 instances?
- ) Procedures likely to generate splashes, sprays, or droplets of blood and body fluids
- ) When in contact with non-intact skin
- ) Handling fluid containers likely to leak or spill when moved
Transmission-based Precautions are specific practices added to ________ precautions when the spread of infection or organisms is not completely stopped using _________ precautions alone.
- standard
- standard
What are the 3 main kinds of Transmission-based Precautions?
- Contact Precautions
- Droplet Precautions
- Airborne Precautions
What is the goal of contact precuations?
Prevent transmission of infectious pathogens that are spread by direct or indirect contact with a resident or their environment
Illnesses requiring contact precaution include, but are not limited to:
- uncontained excessive wound ________
- uncontained fecal or urine __________ or other body fluids
- infection or colonization with MDROs (multi-drug resistant organisms) or other epidemiologically significant organisms
- drainage
- incontinence
For contact precaution strategies, in addition to standard precautions care providers should wear _______ and _______.
gloves and gowns
In addition to wearing gloves and gowns for contact precaution strategies, you should ensure proper _________ and _________ care.
environment and equipment
- use disposable equipment or equipment dedicated to that patient when possible
- clean and disinfect resident room (at least daily) with a focus on high-touch surfaces
Contact precaution strategies also include assessing _______ placement (single room, cohort, existing roommates) and establishing policies for movement of resident outside of the room.
resident