Nursing Processes Precautions
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- What are the indacations for when to use Standard Precautions?
- Recommended for the care of all CLs, regardless of their diagnosis or presumed infection status.
- What is the purpose of Standard Precautions?
- Designed to provide a barrier precaution for all health-care providers-prevent the spread of infectious disease.
- On what Applications should Standard Precautions be used?
- Applies to blood, other bodily fluids, secretions, excretions, nonintact skin, and mucous membranes.
- What is the single most important means of preventing the spread of disease?
- Hand Washing
- What should be performed before and after every Cl contact, and after contact with blood, bodily fluids, or contaminated equipment.
- Hand washing.
- List seven types of Standard Precautions.
- Hand washing, Gloves, Mask and eye protection, Gown, Dospoal of sharps, Containment, Decontamination.
- What should be worn anytime contact with bodily fluids is possible?
- Gloves
- Mask and eye protection
- should be worn whenever there exeist the potential for getting splashed by bodily fluids.
- This should be worn whenever exposed skin or clothing is likely to become soiled during Cl contact.
- A gown
- What is meant by the standard precaution "Disoposal of sharps"?
- All sharp instruments and needles are disposed of in a properly labeled, puncture-resistant container.
- TRUE or FALSE. A nurse should always recap a needle before disposing of it in the proper sharps container.
- False- NEVER recap any needles at any time.
- What is meant by "containment" when talking about Standard precautions?
- Soiled linen should be placed in a leak-proof bag. Grossly contaminated refuse is placed in a red biohazard bag and placed in the appropriate receptacle.
- The type of Standard precaution involving the proper disinfection of equipment per facility guidelines, and the proper disposal of single-use equipment after use.
- Decontamination
- What kind of precautions should be used with a Cl known or suspected to have serious illnesses trasmitted by airborne droplet nuclei.
- Both Standard and airborne precautions