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HESI PN Fundamentals Review Guide
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Handwashing
Ans: The single most effective way to stop the spread of
infection
Medical Asepsis
Ans: Reducing the number of organisms in an environment (ex.
cleaning the tub with disinfectant before giving a patient a
bath)
Sterilization
Ans: Breaks the chain of infection at its various links of
reservoir and the portal exit (removes all organisms)
Standard Precautions
Ans: The principle of infection control that considers every
client's blood and body fluid infectious
When should you wash your hands?
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Ans: Between patients and foaming in and out of patient's
rooms
Why should you hold your hands lower than your forearms while
handwashing?
Ans: Water flows from the least contaminated to the most
contaminated
Hand hygiene
Ans: Breaks the chain of infection
Nosocomial infections
Ans: Hospital-acquired infections
What are the phases of infection?
Ans: Pathogen, reservoir, portal of exit, means of transmission,
portal of entry, new host
When is a patient most contagious?
Ans: Within the first 24 hours and 24 hours after starting
medication
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Wear gown, gloves, and educate the family when?
Ans: Caring for a contagious person (ex. C-diff)
Transmission-Based Precautions
Ans: Used to prevent the spread of known infection to patients
or health care staff and are used when a patient has a
communicable illness that can be spread through contact,
respiratory droplets, or the air. (Wearing gowns, gloves, masks,
eye protection, and possibly head covers are used to prevent
transmission of pathogens)
Isolation Precautions
Ans: Placing an infectious patient in a private room with a
private toilet and equipment breaks the chain of infection the
portal of exit. All equipment taken into the rooms for use must
be left in the room for this patient's use only and sterilized
before used for any other patients.
Droplet Precautions
Ans: Use when in close contact with respiratory or mucous
membrane secretions
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Proper way to remove a gown?
Ans: Grasp the neckline to remove
Always use what to clean areas that are used by multiple patients?
Ans: A disinfectant (ex. bathtub, bedside tables)
How often should person cares be done?
Ans: A minimum of every morning and evening
Morning routine cares include?
Ans: Assisting with bath, toileting, oral care, hair care,
dressing, bedding
HS (Night Cares) include?
Ans: Assist to prepare for sleep, assist with toileting, offer
fluids if allowed, straighten room, dim lights, back massage
How often should oral cares and repositioning be done on an
unresponsive patient?
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HESI PN Fundamentals Review Guide
Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest
Update / Already Graded
Handwashing
Ans: The single most effective way to stop the spread of
infection
Medical Asepsis
Ans: Reducing the number of organisms in an environment (ex.
cleaning the tub with disinfectant before giving a patient a
bath)
Sterilization
Ans: Breaks the chain of infection at its various links of
reservoir and the portal exit (removes all organisms)
Standard Precautions
Ans: The principle of infection control that considers every
client's blood and body fluid infectious
When should you wash your hands?
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Ans: Between patients and foaming in and out of patient's
rooms
Why should you hold your hands lower than your forearms while
handwashing?
Ans: Water flows from the least contaminated to the most
contaminated
Hand hygiene
Ans: Breaks the chain of infection
Nosocomial infections
Ans: Hospital-acquired infections
What are the phases of infection?
Ans: Pathogen, reservoir, portal of exit, means of transmission,
portal of entry, new host
When is a patient most contagious?
Ans: Within the first 24 hours and 24 hours after starting
medication
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Wear gown, gloves, and educate the family when?
Ans: Caring for a contagious person (ex. C-diff)
Transmission-Based Precautions
Ans: Used to prevent the spread of known infection to patients
or health care staff and are used when a patient has a
communicable illness that can be spread through contact,
respiratory droplets, or the air. (Wearing gowns, gloves, masks,
eye protection, and possibly head covers are used to prevent
transmission of pathogens)
Isolation Precautions
Ans: Placing an infectious patient in a private room with a
private toilet and equipment breaks the chain of infection the
portal of exit. All equipment taken into the rooms for use must
be left in the room for this patient's use only and sterilized
before used for any other patients.
Droplet Precautions
Ans: Use when in close contact with respiratory or mucous
membrane secretions
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Proper way to remove a gown?
Ans: Grasp the neckline to remove
Always use what to clean areas that are used by multiple patients?
Ans: A disinfectant (ex. bathtub, bedside tables)
How often should person cares be done?
Ans: A minimum of every morning and evening
Morning routine cares include?
Ans: Assisting with bath, toileting, oral care, hair care,
dressing, bedding
HS (Night Cares) include?
Ans: Assist to prepare for sleep, assist with toileting, offer
fluids if allowed, straighten room, dim lights, back massage
How often should oral cares and repositioning be done on an
unresponsive patient?
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