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medical asepsis - Answer ✔✔CLEAN technique to REDUCE the number of
organisms and PREVENT THE TRANSFER
Surgical asepsis - Answer ✔✔PREVENT any contamination, ISOLATES operative
area from the OPERATIVE area from the unsterile environment.
airborne precautions - Answer ✔✔measles, chicken pox, disseminated varicella
zoster, pulm/ laryngeal TB
private room w/ negative airflow 6-12 exchanges/ hr via HEPA or respiratory
device N95
when would you need a private room or cohort patients, mask or respirator -
Answer ✔✔droplet precautions! within 3 feet= danger!
diphtheria, pertussis, MMR, strep, pneumonia, scarlet fever, sepsis, plague
,what type of precautions for VRE, MRSA, C. diff, shigella, enteric pathogens, major
wound infections, herpes simplex, scabies, varicella zoster, respiratory syncytial
virus in infants of immunosuppressed - Answer ✔✔contact precautions
private room or cohort patients, gloves, and gown!
protective environment for whom? - Answer ✔✔allogenic hematopoietic stem
cell transplants
private room, positive airflow w/ 12 or more air exchanges/ hour with HEPA or
mask worn by the patient when out of room
order of apply PPE - Answer ✔✔gown mask
goggles gloves
order of taking off PPE - Answer ✔✔gloves goggles
gown
mask
patient progressing from nonspecific to specific types of infection; what is the
stage? - Answer ✔✔
<<<<<💕💕💕✔✔prodromal stage
hands are above or below elbows when keeping aspepsis - Answer ✔✔above
, hands above elbows
criteria to determine fall risk - Answer ✔✔age, fall history (6 mo), elimination,
medications, equipment, mobility, cognition
*high fall is more than 13
restraints - Answer ✔✔need renewal Q 4 hrs for a maximum of 24 hours. need to
be removed Q 2 hours.
remove 1 at a time with assistance if patient is violent
apply belt over clothes @ the waist (not chest or abdomen)
two fingers under restraint
with wrist/ ankle restraints- place lateral! supine is aspiration risk!
use elbow restraint w/ infants, children to prevent elbow flexion
RACE - Answer ✔✔rescue, activate alarm, confine the fire, extinguish the fire
ITE or intraaural aid - Answer ✔✔fits into the external auditory canal and allows
more fine tuning; it is more noticeable but easy to fit