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NCLEX Lpn Infection Control

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1. BLEEDING PRECAUTION Patient. These Patients Who Are On...
Coumadin/ Heparin - DIC - Hemophila - Chemo - Problem w/ bone marrow - Cancer - Liver disease - On aspirin or NSAIDS
1. HOB up to eat 2. On right side after eating 3. Suction avialable 4. Side rails up 5. Bed in low position 6. Call bell w/ patient reach
Dry cough
Transfer the adult patient with a condition or treatment similar to that which is seen in the pediatric population COPD is like CF (cystic fibrosis) = both need chest physiotherapy Pneumonia is pneumonia

2. DON'T TRANSFER Which Patient
Use standard precautions except if an organism is listed. Follow the CDC guidelines If patient presents with S&S of infection ( increase temp - rash - high WBC) isolate immediately until verified. Which patient can you keep at the same room COPD + N
1. Patient which are UNSTABLE 2. Unknown diagnosis 3. Patient whose condition is made worse by stress
Gown and gloves and disinfectant all the equipments
Pink red maculopapules

3. What is the most common cause of ATB associated diarrhea
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)
Pink red maculopapules
Small pox
1. HOB up to eat 2. On right side after eating 3. Suction avialable 4. Side rails up 5. Bed in low position 6. Call bell w/ patient reach

4. What is the most dangerous type of Hep?
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)
MEASLES - GERMAN MEASLES - PARAVIRUS B19 - VARICELLA CHICKEN POX - RADIO ACTIVE ISO TOPE - HANGING CHEMO MEDS
A private room but the door can remain open - Use standard percautions but a wear a MASK When YOUR W/In 3FT of The PT - SPIT ZOne
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5. What are common side effects of PPE
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB
1. HOB up to eat 2. On right side after eating 3. Suction avialable 4. Side rails up 5. Bed in low position 6. Call bell w/ patient reach
Those with liver problems and pregnant women
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days

6. Droplet precautions
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH
1. HOB up to eat 2. On right side after eating 3. Suction avialable 4. Side rails up 5. Bed in low position 6. Call bell w/ patient reach
Mask will 3 feet
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs

7. What are the characteristics of Chicken pox Varicella?
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs
Gloves
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever

8. What kind of room would an Airborne precaution pt need
Feces of infected people or animals
PRIVATE - NEGATIVE PRESSURE ROOM
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept
Glanders - Lassa

9. If aptient is going to surgery do not give them
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K
Gown and gloves and disinfectant all the equipments
MEASLES - GERMAN MEASLES - PARAVIRUS B19 - VARICELLA CHICKEN POX - RADIO ACTIVE ISO TOPE - HANGING CHEMO MEDS
Contaminated food and water

10. What are characteristics of Measles (Rubeola)
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard
Kopliks spots
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO
Lindane - Crotmiton - Permethrine

11. Where can you find Salmonella
Feces of infected people or animals
Transfer the adult patient with a condition or treatment similar to that which is seen in the pediatric population COPD is like CF (cystic fibrosis) = both need chest physiotherapy Pneumonia is pneumonia
A consent form to be signed for Hep B - C and HIV
N - V - D and Abd pain

12. What is the tx for Scabies
Mask will 3 feet
Infected patient can leave their rooms as long as they wear the same protective garments out of their room that we wear when we are going (entering in ) into their room.
Blue - Blue - green - GREEN means negative
Lindane - Crotmiton - Permethrine

13. What patients need Droplet precautions?
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask
Typhus - Psittacosis - Meliodosis - Shigellosis - Brucellosis
Private room - gloves - gown - MRS.WEE M - Multidrug resistant organism R - Respiratory infection - RSV child wears mask S - Skin infections (see below 'VCHIPS') W - Wound infections E - Enteric infections - clostridium defficile E - Eye infections
Private room with negative pressure

14. Who should get the chicken pox vaccine
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO
1.Recieve ward must be familar w/ the disease/ treatment 2. Be alert for gender specific wards
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation
1. Unvaccinated children 12months and older 2.Susceptible non pregnant women 3. Susceptible persons living in a dorm or jail 4. International travelers

15. When CAN INFECTED Patient LEAVE TheIR ROOM
Infected patient can leave their rooms as long as they wear the same protective garments out of their room that we wear when we are going (entering in ) into their room.
Mask will 3 feet
N - V - D and Abd pain
Wash your hands w/ an antimicrobial soap for 15min before and after contact with pts and teach pt's family members to do the same place in isolation - use dedicated equipment

16. Which Patient CAN KEEP In The SAME ROOM
Deet spray
COPD + Negative pressure room = Keep together
Wash your hands w/ an antimicrobial soap for 15min before and after contact with pts and teach pt's family members to do the same place in isolation - use dedicated equipment
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO

17. What should you have the patient sign after being stuck by a needle?
Infected patient can leave their rooms as long as they wear the same protective garments out of their room that we wear when we are going (entering in ) into their room.
1. Unvaccinated children 12months and older 2.Susceptible non pregnant women 3. Susceptible persons living in a dorm or jail 4. International travelers
A consent form to be signed for Hep B - C and HIV
- Low platelets -- High PT/ PTT -- Coumadin/ Heparin ---- TURP --- PT 20 ( report to the doctor)

18. Who needs Standard - Airbourne and Contact precautions
Deet spray
Pencillins - Cephalosporins - Clindamycin
DISCONTINUE The ATB
Small pox

19. What type of job should a person with hepatitis never have
- Low platelets -- High PT/ PTT -- Coumadin/ Heparin ---- TURP --- PT 20 ( report to the doctor)
Chef
1St provide care 2nd notify MD ( medical doctor
1. Oldest child 1st 2. No communicable diseases 3. Not immunocompromised 4. No teaching needed]

20. What other ATB might be prescribed to treat c diff
Gown and gloves and disinfectant all the equipments
Oral Flagyl and and Vancomycin
HIV - HEP B - C - Cytmegalovirus
DISCONTINUE The ATB

21. What is the two diseased caused by ticks
Kopliks spots
Wrist ankles Palms - soles Forearm
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease
Transfer the adult patient with a condition or treatment similar to that which is seen in the pediatric population COPD is like CF (cystic fibrosis) = both need chest physiotherapy Pneumonia is pneumonia

22. Who is not able to start PPE
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
1. HOB up to eat 2. On right side after eating 3. Suction avialable 4. Side rails up 5. Bed in low position 6. Call bell w/ patient reach
Those with liver problems and pregnant women
HIV - HEP B - C - Cytmegalovirus

23. What pt's need to use Standard - Airbourne - Contaction and Droplet Precautions (SAC D)
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
-- Aqua Mephyton = Vitamin K = given coumadin going to surgery ---- Morphine SO4 40mg IV stat for MI ( no more than 40mg) ---- When someone have low K+ hold the digoxin ----- Immunocompromised ----- PCP (pneumocyst carini pneumonia) Peds nurse float

24. Rule: What YOU CAN USE When Patient GOING To SURGERY And Which MED YOU CAN HOLD
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO
COPD + Negative pressure room = Keep together
Mask will 3 feet
-- Aqua Mephyton = Vitamin K = given coumadin going to surgery ---- Morphine SO4 40mg IV stat for MI ( no more than 40mg) ---- When someone have low K+ hold the digoxin ----- Immunocompromised ----- PCP (pneumocyst carini pneumonia) Peds nurse float

25. When dealing w/ a Droplet percautions pt they require
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
A private room but the door can remain open - Use standard percautions but a wear a MASK When YOUR W/In 3FT of The PT - SPIT ZOne
5 shots - Immunoglobulins are given - but if there showing symtoms it's too late
Those with liver problems and pregnant women

26. Rabies pt's would need
1. Unvaccinated children 12months and older 2.Susceptible non pregnant women 3. Susceptible persons living in a dorm or jail 4. International travelers
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves
Glanders - Lassa
5 shots - Immunoglobulins are given - but if there showing symtoms it's too late

27. After getting the Varicella vacc who should you teach pt's to avoid
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH
A consent form to be signed for Hep B - C and HIV
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation
Swelling and tenderness of one or more salivary glands

28. To be most effective when should postexposure prophylaxis (PPE) be started?
Gloves
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO
Private rooms or patient with same organisms
Within in 1 hour of exposure - but is still effective if given as late as 24 hours after exposure

29. What should you wash the toilet seat with
Bleach
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH
Gloves
1. Cirrhosis encephalopathy 2. PIH (pregenancy induced hypertension) 3. DT'S (delirium tremors) 4. ICP 5. CVA 6. Meningitis 7. Brian surgery 8. head trauma

30. WHen should you use standard percautions
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES
Before the rash appears

31. When should you use Airborne Precautions
1.. Patient with/ night sweats and temp w/cough (TB). 2. Headache and stiff neck ( Meningitis). 3. Adult w/rash or blisters only on one side (Shingles). 4. Any patient w/ S&S of infection: 1ST ACTION ISOLATE
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB
Private room with negative pressure

32. How would you take off Personal protective gear?
A diet high in calories and low fat
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation

33. What should the school teacher teach kids handleing pets
Wash their hands before and after handling pets
MEASLES - GERMAN MEASLES - PARAVIRUS B19 - VARICELLA CHICKEN POX - RADIO ACTIVE ISO TOPE - HANGING CHEMO MEDS
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard
Dry cough

34. Who needs Standard Contact and Droplet precautions
Bleach
Glanders - Lassa
Infected patient can leave their rooms as long as they wear the same protective garments out of their room that we wear when we are going (entering in ) into their room.
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease

35. When is a pt w/measles most contagious?
Wash their hands before and after handling pets
Before the rash appears
Rest - warm - humid air
Deet spray

36. How can you prevent Salmonella
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs
1. Oldest child 1st 2. No communicable diseases 3. Not immunocompromised 4. No teaching needed]
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs
1.Recieve ward must be familar w/ the disease/ treatment 2. Be alert for gender specific wards

37. Who shouldn't get the measles vacc
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs
A private room but the door can remain open - Use standard percautions but a wear a MASK When YOUR W/In 3FT of The PT - SPIT ZOne

38. What Is The Rule: NEVER SEND A Patient To SURGERY ANTICOAGULANT
Those with liver problems and pregnant women
DISCONTINUE The ATB
- Low platelets -- High PT/ PTT -- Coumadin/ Heparin ---- TURP --- PT 20 ( report to the doctor)
Deet spray

39. What is a GUAIAC test?
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
Wash your hands w/ an antimicrobial soap for 15min before and after contact with pts and teach pt's family members to do the same place in isolation - use dedicated equipment
Before the rash appears
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool

40. What should you wear when drawing blood
Rest - warm - humid air
A consent form to be signed for Hep B - C and HIV
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs
Gloves

41. What are the S/S for Botulism
You should get tested for HIV HEP B - C @ 6 weeks - 3months - and 6 months
N - V - D and Abd pain
Coumadin/ Heparin - DIC - Hemophila - Chemo - Problem w/ bone marrow - Cancer - Liver disease - On aspirin or NSAIDS
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH

42. Rule: MED ERROR - PT INJURY OR ATTEMPT SUICIDE
You should get tested for HIV HEP B - C @ 6 weeks - 3months - and 6 months
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever
1St provide care 2nd notify MD ( medical doctor
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots

43. What are the Ni for Pertussis?
Feces of infected people or animals
1. Oldest child 1st 2. No communicable diseases 3. Not immunocompromised 4. No teaching needed]
Rest - warm - humid air
An order for and Anti Diarrhea med like Imodium

44. What should a Contact Precaution pt have
N - V - D and Abd pain
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect room
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease
1. HOB up to eat 2. On right side after eating 3. Suction avialable 4. Side rails up 5. Bed in low position 6. Call bell w/ patient reach

45. Where would you see a rash w/ Rocky mountain spotted fever?
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES
A consent form to be signed for Hep B - C and HIV
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
Wrist ankles Palms - soles Forearm

46. What should the nurse immediately do if she stuck by a used needle?
N - V - D and Abd pain
Transfer the adult patient with a condition or treatment similar to that which is seen in the pediatric population COPD is like CF (cystic fibrosis) = both need chest physiotherapy Pneumonia is pneumonia
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept
1.Recieve ward must be familar w/ the disease/ treatment 2. Be alert for gender specific wards

47. What should you wear when taking a pt's VS?
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation
Chef
A diet high in calories and low fat
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs

48. How is Salmonella transmitted
You should get tested for HIV HEP B - C @ 6 weeks - 3months - and 6 months
Contaminated food and water
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES
1.. Patient with/ night sweats and temp w/cough (TB). 2. Headache and stiff neck ( Meningitis). 3. Adult w/rash or blisters only on one side (Shingles). 4. Any patient w/ S&S of infection: 1ST ACTION ISOLATE

49. What kind of diet is needed for a PT with hepatitis A
A
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH
A diet high in calories and low fat
Kopliks spots

50. How is Hep A spread
Blue - Blue - green - GREEN means negative
Gown and gloves and disinfectant all the equipments
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation
Fecal/oral

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