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,Contact precaution steps: Steps
Donning:
• Perform hand hygiene.
• Put on gown.
• Apply clean gloves, making sure gloves are pulled over the sleeves of the gown.
Doffing:
• Remove and dispose of gloves.
• Remove gown.
• Perform hand hygiene
Droplet precautions steps: Donning:
• Perform hand hygiene.
• Put on a surgical mask.
Doffing:
• Remove the surgical mask by touching the ties/ear loops.
• Perform hand hygiene
Airborne precautions steps: Donning:
• Perform hand hygiene.
• Put on gown.
• Put on respirator.
• If indicated, apply eyewear (goggles, face shield).
• Apply gloves.
Doffing:
• Remove gloves.
• Remove eyewear, if worn.
• Remove gown.
• Remove respirator.
• Perform hand hygiene
Standard Precautions formerly known as "universal precautions," were developed by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to protect health-care professionals and
clients
The primary goal of Standard Precautions is to prevent the exchange of blood and body fluids. Standard Precautions should be
practiced with every client throughout the entire encounter, whether or not the
client has a known or suspected infectious process.
Standard Precautions are the The minimum infection control practices that are practiced in all health-care
settings; these recommendations recognize that more client care is being
delivered in non-hospital settings.
The CDC recommendations for Standard Precautions Hand hygiene
include: Use of personal protective equipment
Respiratory hygiene/cough etiquette
Appropriate client placement
Proper handling of equipment and disinfecting the environment
Safe injection practices
, The most important infection control practice is hand washing
Hand washing with soap and water is recommended hands are visibly soiled or after working with clients with blood or body fluids.
when
Personal protective equipment (PPE) includes gloves, gowns, masks or respirators (such as N-95), and goggles/face shields
Outside the health-care setting many facilities posted 6 feet
signs reminding people to stay ... away from others to
help decrease contact with respiratory droplets.
... specify how best to prevent the spread of infectious Safe injection practices
agents from client to client and from client to health-care
providers from contaminated needles/sharps
Safe injection practices These practices are vital to the prevention of blood-borne diseases such as
hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV.
These precautions are to be used in conjunction with Transmission-based precautions
Standard Precautions.
..., such as in impetigo, scabies, varicella-zoster virus, and Contact transmission pathogens
multidrug-resistant organisms (e.g., methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus-MRSA), can be spread directly
from person to person
Droplet transmission occurs when microorganisms are respiratory secretions (sneezing and coughing)
deposited on susceptible body parts via ...
... spreads microorganisms by air currents and inhalation. Airborne transmission
Properly ... protects the nurse from accidental exposure donning and removing PPE
to infectious and communicable diseases.