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What factors that place an individual at risk for an infection? - ✔✔age, broken skin, WBC,
health status
What is the chain of infection? - ✔✔1. Infectious Agent - prion, bacteria, virus, fungi, parasite
2. Reservoir - habitat of infectious agent
3. Portal of Exit - leaves reservoir
4. Mode of Transmission - contact, droplet, airborne
5. Portal of Entry - way of exit; cough sneeze laughing
6. Susceptible Host - who can be infected
What interventions/nursing actions help to prevent the spread of infection ("break the chain")
at each link? - ✔✔Hand hygiene, PPE, immunizations
What is a HAI? Identify specific HAIs. What is the best way to prevent these? - ✔✔- An
infection that is acquired during a hospital visit
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), surgical site infection (SSI), ventilator-
associated pneumonia (VAP), central line associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI)
-Hand hygiene
What are MDROs? Examples? What factors have led to the development of MDROs? - ✔✔-
Multidrug resistant organism; MRSA, VRE, C. diff
- The organism adapting to certain treatments, making it resistant to certain antimicrobials
Compare and contrast the signs and symptoms of local and systemic infection. - ✔✔Local:
swelling, redness, pain/tenderness, hot
, Systematic: Fever, fatigue and malaise, swelling of lymph nodes, ^ pulse and resp. rate
Diagnostic tests related to infection - ✔✔- Blood test
- culture and sensitivity
- infection specific
Compare and contrast medical and surgical asepsis. - ✔✔Medical asepsis- clean technique
Surgical asepsis - sterile technique with sterile field
Discuss principles of surgical asepsis (How to maintain a sterile field) - ✔✔- Two people
needed
- sterile objects are contaminated if touched by non-sterile objects
- only sterile objects are allowed the sterile field
- Keep gloved hands in the above the waist and under neck
- You are considered contaminated if you turn away from field
- edges of sterile field are contaminated; 1 inch margin
- sterile objects that touch wet contaminated surfaces are now contaminated
Transmission-based precautions - ✔✔- standard: hand hygiene, gown, gloves, face shield,
mask
- Contact: gown, gloves, private room (C. diff, skin/wound infection)
- Droplet: mask, gloves, gown (flu, mumps, pertussis)
- Airborne: Negative pressure room, N95, (TB, covid, chicken pox, measles)
- Protective isolation: mask, hand hygiene (compromised immune system, no live objects in
room - flowers, fruits)
Identify proper assessment of the musculoskeletal system. - ✔✔Assessment: history, muscle
or joint issues, pain, ADLs, activity
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