Safety Precautions

What are the 6 things in the “chain of infection”?

Infectious Agents, Reservoirs, Portals of exit, Modes of transmission, Portals of entry, Susceptible host

What are the 5 pathogen categories?

Viral, Bacterial, Parasitic, Fungal, Prion Disease

What are the 3 modes of transmission?

Contact, Droplet, Airborne

What is involved in standard precautions?

Hand hygiene, Respiratory hygiene, PPE

Hand rubbing for _ seconds, Hand washing for _ seconds

20 to 30, 40 to 60

What is involved in contact precautions?

Clean hands for entry and exit, gown and gloves at door

What is involved in droplet precautions?

Clean hands for entry and exit, gown and gloves at door, Ear loop mask and face shield

What is involved in airborne precautions?

Clean hands for entry and exit, N95

What is involved in special airborne precautions?

Clean hands for entry and exit, gown and gloves at door, N95

What is the sequence of events for donning PPE?

Hand hygiene, gown, face mask, eye protection, gloves

What is the sequence of events for doffing PPE?

Gloves, gown, hand hygiene, eye protection, face mask, hand hygiene

What is the difference between patient guarding and patient assistance?

Guarding is watching over for prevention of harm, assistance is the action of helping someone

We want good body mechanics to obtain a _ _ during movement, reducing _

mechanical advantage, injury

COM vs LOG vs BOS

Center of mass is an object´s balance point, line of gravity is COM to floor, BOS is contact area of an object

Gait belts should have space of _ fingers, need readjustment after _ _. Should _ _ once in ideal position and _ _ at the end

2, standing up, tuck in, take off

In many circumstances, it is ideal to control _, direct _

centrally, distally

To reduce pressure on the patient´s skin, you should have an _ grip with broad _ _

Lumbrical, purchase point