NURS 5031 Study Guide: Infection Control & Prevention
NURS 5031 Study Guide: Infection Control & Prevention
- Describe the signs/symptoms of a localized infection and those of a systemic infection
- Localized infection
- Pain, tenderness, warmth, redness, and loss of function at the affected site
- Most common in skin or mucous membrane breakdown (surgical/traumatic wounds, pressure ulcers, oral lesions, and abscesses
- Systemic infection
- Affects the entire body instead of just a single organ or part
- Can become fatal if undetected and untreated
- Develops after treatment for localized infection has failed
- s/sx include fever, leukocytosis, malaise, nausea/vomiting, lymph node enlargement, organ failure
- Understand infection control and CDC isolation guidelines.
- Be able to identify the correct type of isolation guidelines for common infections in the hospital setting.
- See above, same chart