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| practices and procerdures that health care workers can use to prevent the spread of infection within a health care setting |
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| Why do they continue to be revamped? |
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| Information is learnt about microbes, modes of transportation, and control. |
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| What are the two forms of body fluid precautions recently practiced in Canada? |
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UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS
BODY SUBSTANCE ISOLATION |
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| And they have been replaced with? |
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| Standard Precautions. It protects against ALL hospital patients regardless of their diagnosis or infectious status. |
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| Isolation Practices were separately designated using the? |
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| Traditional or disease specific isolation procedures. |
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| And it has been replaced by? |
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| Transmission based precautions which contains precations used for patients suspected or known to be infected. |
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| What are the standard precautions today? |
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| the number one strategy for nosocomical infection control. Terminology changed, new information, eliminated the need for several isolation categories previously used and offered additional protection |
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| What is the difference between secretion and excretion? |
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| excretion deals with waste products. Secretions deal with functionally useful fluid released from the glandular cells. |
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| When are universal precautions used? |
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By all health care workers for all patients
and, During routine patient care and cleaning duties. |
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| Explain all health care workers for all patients? |
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| They must be used consistantly as one cannot always tell wether patients can spread disase or infection just by looking at them |
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| And why routine patient care and cleaning duties? |
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| Expected contact with blood, body fluids, mucous membranes, non-intact skin |
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| What is the body substance that is NOT included in standard precautions? |
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| The 9 standard precautions for Infection control |
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| WASH HANDS, WEAR GLOVES, WEAR MASK, WEAR GOWN, PATIENT CARE EQUIPMENT, ENVIROMENTAL CONTROL, LINEN, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND BLOOD BORNE PATHOGENS, PATIENT PLACEMENT |
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| after touching blood and all body fluids, contaminated items, after gloves are removed, between patients and when hands are contaminated |
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| Change gloves between patients, when handling blood or body flui, mucous membranes and non intact skin, remove immediately |
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| Wear Mask, Eye protection, face shield |
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| Protect mucous membranes of the eyes, nose and mouth, splashes of blood or body fluids |
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| Protect skin and prevent contamination of clothes during procedures, remove soiled gown immediately and wash hands |
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| private room for infection control standards |
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| Occupational Health and Blood Born Pathegons |
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| Never recap used needles, dispose of sharps, dispose of entire syringe, do not bend of manipulate needle by hand, place sharps in used sharps container, use resuscitation devices as alternatives to mouth to mouth |
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| Handle blood or body fluid contaminated linen without transferring infection to you or your clothes |
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| Handle equipment without transferring infectious material to yourself, and it is cleaned between patients |
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| Follow hospital protocols for routine care, cleaning and disinfection of all surfaces and equipment |
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| Personal Protective Equipment consists of |
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| gloves, gowns, masks, and eye protection |
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Provides a barrier between worker and patient
prevents pathogens transfer from one person to another |
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| Gloves will protect from .. |
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| Any spill of blood to the hands and reduce the volume from a needle stick injury. |
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Touching blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions, and contaminated items.
Performing invasis or test procedures.
Handling patient specimen
Touching mucous membranes and non intact skin |
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| between tasks and procedures on the same patient after contact with material that may contain high concentrations of microorganisms. |
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| Remove and Wash Hands when.. |
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After Use
New patient
Soiled or Damaged
When touching non contaminated items such as doorknobs or phones. |
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| operating rooms or touching sterile tissue of a patient. |
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| Suitable to the task, fit well and are tight at the wrist, good quality and thickness |
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| What is contact dermatitis |
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| breaks in the natural barrier of the skin due to wearing gloves. Huge increase in risk. Almost all workers who have this will have staphylococcus aureus which can cause nosocomial infections in the other patients. |
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| How to prevent dermatitis |
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| low protein latex gloves, gloves without powder, use of a barrier cream, cotton liners, switch to vinyl |
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| Guidelines for proper use of gloves |
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remove jewellary
wash hands before gloves
select gloves that fit
remove gloves without touching gloves
wash hands after gloves |
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provides protection to worker from splashes or aerosols of infectious material
Mask provides protection to the patient from infectious microorganisms from worker. |
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| Expandable, pulled apart to cover mouth and nose, Second style is moulded. |
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used when airborne transmissions of infection are present.
no air leaks so get the right size
men with facial hair need a hooded one
Only qualified people who have passed a clearance can use it |
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| Instead of HEPA, you can use.. |
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PFR 95 AND N95 RESPIRATORS
BOTH MUST FIT WITH NO AIR LEAKS, ONLY PEOPLE WITH CLEARANCE, AND MEN WITH FACIAL HAIR. |
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| surround the eye area and protect the eyes. Also protect mucous membranes of the nose and mouth. |
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| Protects the eye, nose, and mouth area. Still wear a mask underneath. |
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| protect skin and clothing from splashes, etc. Must wear around new borns or immune systems |
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| soiled or between patients. |
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| single most effective way to prevent nosocomial infections. |
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unprotected exposure to blood, etc.
touch contaminated equipment
removing gloves
glove tear, leaving a work area,
eating or drinking, start and end of shift, blowing nose, going to the bathroom, between patients |
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| used in general patient and non critical areas |
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hibitane aka chlorhexidine kill the bacterial but will ruin normal flora of the skin and cause dry chapped skin.
Used in High Risk Areas. |
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DO NOT RECAP
IMMEDIATELY PLACE IN RESISTANT JAR
SHARP END DOWN
DISCARD THE WHOLE UNIT IF POSSIBLE |
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| How far should it be filled? the sharps container. |
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| How to clean up contaminated Glass |
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use a bleach for 10 minutes
use disinfectant soaked wet paper towel and gloved hands
clean up with broom
place in biohazard broken glass container |
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| How to clean up uncontaminated glass |
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sweep.
use wet paper towel and gloves.
place in broken glass container. |
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| being exposed to commonly used germicides at concentrations much lower then those used in practice |
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| common chemical disinfectants including 500ppm sodium hydrochloride (1:1000 household bleach) and some quaternary ammonium compounds |
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| What about the broom after? |
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| What is the general rule? |
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for large spills - clean and then disinfect
for small spills of a few drops: wipe up with disinfectant |
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| 5 Steps to Inpatient Care and Client Services |
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1. gloves.
2. gown and face shield if there is a possibility of splashing
3. Contain large spills.(clay or chlorine absoraband)
- the surface must be clean before applying a disinfectant because disinfectants are substantially inactivated by blood.
-decontaminate for 10 minutes
4. small spills can be scooped up with a disinfectant wipe.
5. dried spills should be moistened with disinfectant before clean up to avoid scrapping and releasing microorganisms in the air. |
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| Don't forget if ya' spill laboratory specimens !! |
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| flood liquid disinfectant before cleaning, then remove, and finally decontaminate for 10 minutes. |
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| Two examples of biohazards waste |
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May contain large numbers of pathogenic microorganisms
1. wear appropriate PPE to place soiled linen in leak proof bags and transfer to cleaning area
2. Clothing contaminated with blood can be cleaned through regular washing.
Don't touch contaminated aras. |
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| Biological Hazard or Biohazard isss |
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any material or substance harmful to your health.
Contaminated with blood or body fluids
Must be placed in special bags marked with the waste symbol. |
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| If you collect and transport laboratory specimens, remember *** |
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1. follow institutional guidelines for collecting, labelling, packaging, and transporting.
wear appropriate PPE.
Don't contaminate the collection container and requisition.
Store specimens properly.
Do not store refrigerated specimens with food and drinks. |
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| What is occupational Exposure |
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Skin is pierced by a contaminated needle or object
Bodily Fluids splashes in the eyes, nose, or mouth
Blood or fluid comes into contact with a cut, scratch or abrasion.
A human bite. |
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| What do you do after occupational expose |
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| Follow post exposure protocol. |
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| In your document, record: |
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| route of exposure, source of blood, volume of inoculum, elasped time since injury, extent of injury, type and promptness of initial treatment, HEP B immunization status |
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| Steps of Post Exposure Protocol |
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| Immediately: first aid, remove contaminated clothing, wash the area. Encourage bleeding, bandage if necessary.Rinse the area is mucous. REPORT the accident to supervisor, occupational health, emergency. Fill out accident form. |
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