NSE 111 Readings & Lecture (2023/2024) Rated A+

NSE 111 Readings & Lecture (2023/2024) Rated A+ What are critical items for sterilization, disinfection, and cleaning? surgical instruments, intravascular catheters, urinary catheters, needles What are semicritical items for sterilization, disinfection, and cleaning? Electronic thermometers, resp therapy equiment, endotracheal tubes, GI endoscopes, vaginal and nasal specula What are non critical items for sterilization, disinfection, and cleaning? Bedpans, urinals, and commodes, blood pressure cuffs, linens, stethoscopes, some eating utensils How long can cile live on inanimate surfaces? weeks to months What is the most important and most basic technique in preventing the transmission of infections hand hygiene If an infection can be transmitted from one person to another, it is a communicable disease The mode of transmission for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is: Direct and indirect contact The interval when a patient manifests signs and symptoms specific to a type of infection is the... Illness stage The most important and basic way to break the chain of infection is by Practicing hand hygiene The minimum handwashing time with soap and water necessary to remove most transient microorganisms is 40-60 seconds A px is on iso precautions for pulmonary TB. The nurse notes that the px seems to be angry but knows this is a normal response to iso. The nurse's best intervention is Explain the isolation procedures and provide meaningful stim A gown should be worn when Blood or body fluids may get on the nurse's clothing from a task the nurse plans to perform You have dressed a px wound and now plan to administer a medication (which is currently in the room) to the px. It is important ot Remove your gloves and perform hand hygiene before administering the medication A px on your unit develops diarrhea, which is confirmed to be caused by C.Diff. What type of iso should this px be placed on? Contact precautions When performing surgical hand hygiene, the nurse's hands must be kept Above the elbows 5 steps of the nursing process 1. Assessment 2. Diagnosis 3. Planning 4. Implementation 5. Evaluation What are the 5 stages of change? 1. Pre-contemplation 2. Contemplation 3. Preparation 4. Action 5. Maintenance Define precontemplation unaware of need for change and has no intention of changing behaviours Define contemplation Aware of need to change and intends to change behaviour sometime in the future Define preparation Alters behaviours in minor ways with the intention to make substantive changes in the immediate future Define action Modifies behaviours and experiences in order to make sustainable change Define maintenance focuses on not reverting to previous