PPE and Vital Signs Vocabulary

Vocabulary flashcards covering Standard Precautions, Transmission-Based Precautions, PPE doffing order, hand hygiene, and vital signs.

Standard Precautions

Precautions performed with all people at all times to keep the patient safe and protect the patient, provider, and others from you.

Transmission-Based Precautions

Extra steps used in addition to standard precautions, also known as isolation precautions, designed to keep the provider and community safe from the patient.

Hand Hygiene (Soap and Water)

-Hand washing method required for enteric disease

-scrubbing wet hands with soap for at least 30 seconds and turning off the faucet with a towel.

otherwise sanitizer is preferred method in hospital

-sanitizer: rub hands for 15 sec or until dry

Doffing PPE Sequence

The required order for removing personal protective equipment: glove $\rightarrow$ eyes $\rightarrow$ gown $\rightarrow$ mask.

Contact Precautions

Transmission-based precautions that require gloves and a gown.

Airborne Precautions

Transmission-based precautions that require gloves, gown, respirator, and eye protection.

Droplet Precautions

Transmission-based precautions that require gloves, gown, mask, and eye protection.

Vital Signs

Measurements of life-sustaining functions that provide information on a patient's physiological status.

Blood Pressure

A vital sign recorded in even numbers that is considered bad if systolic is greater than 150 or diastolic is greater than 115.

Temperature

A vital sign with a regular standard baseline noted as 98.6.

Donning PPE

Gown to mask to eyes to gloves

vital signs

1.heart rate

2.blood pressure

3.temperature

4.respiration

(pulse oximetry)

is a transmission based precatution same as isolation?

yes!

standard precaution is to protect patient from YOU and transmission is to protect you from PATIENT