NCLEX Lpn Infection Control

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1. Rule: DISCHARGE DURING AN EMERGENCY
A diet high in calories and low fat
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept
Wash their hands before and after handling pets
1.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients


2. What should the school teacher teach kids handleing pets
1St provide care 2nd notify MD ( medical doctor
Kopliks spots
Wash their hands before and after handling pets
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever


3. Rule: Transferring ADULT To PEDIATRIC WARDS
1.Recieve ward must be familar w/ the disease/ treatment 2. Be alert for gender specific wards
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
Gloves


4. What pt's would be ok for a pregnant nurse to care for
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.
HIV - HEP B - C - Cytmegalovirus
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB


5. How is c diff transmitted?
Pencillins - Cephalosporins - Clindamycin
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs
Contaminated food and water


6. BLEEDING PRECAUTION Patient. These Patients Who Are On...
Typhus - Psittacosis - Meliodosis - Shigellosis - Brucellosis
Glanders - Lassa
N - V - D and Abd pain
Coumadin/ Heparin - DIC - Hemophila - Chemo - Problem w/ bone marrow - Cancer - Liver disease - On aspirin or NSAIDS


7. Rule: What YOU CAN USE When Patient GOING To SURGERY And Which MED YOU CAN HOLD
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves
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.
-- 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
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept


8. What should you tell the pt to prepare for the GUAIAC test

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9. What is the two diseased caused by ticks
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease
Swelling and tenderness of one or more salivary glands
Coumadin/ Heparin - DIC - Hemophila - Chemo - Problem w/ bone marrow - Cancer - Liver disease - On aspirin or NSAIDS
Feces of infected people or animals


10. Infected Air - borne precaution
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
Mask will 3 feet
Pencillins - Cephalosporins - Clindamycin
Private room with negative pressure


11. If aptient is going to surgery do not give them
You should get tested for HIV HEP B - C @ 6 weeks - 3months - and 6 months
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
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K


12. DON'T TRANSFER Which Patient
No vaccine if : patient has temp > 101 on antibiotics For exposure to any infection/ enlarged lymph nodes: immunoglobin given ----- for pain and discomfort Misc Facts
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
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept
1. Patient which are UNSTABLE 2. Unknown diagnosis 3. Patient whose condition is made worse by stress


13. Contact Precautions
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs
An order for and Anti Diarrhea med like Imodium
You should get tested for HIV HEP B - C @ 6 weeks - 3months - and 6 months
Gown and gloves and disinfectant all the equipments


14. What should you do if the c diff is linked to an ATB
1.Anyone recieving high doses of steriods 2. Pregnant women 3. A allergy to neomycin or gelatin 4.Anyone w/ an active infection 5. Immuncomprimised pt's
Gloves - gown - goggles and mask - Everything
Small pox
DISCONTINUE The ATB


15. What are char of Pertussis( whooping cough)
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
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
Dry cough
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever


16. Rule: MED ERROR - PT INJURY OR ATTEMPT SUICIDE
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES
Pink red maculopapules
1St provide care 2nd notify MD ( medical doctor
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation


17. What should you have the patient sign after being stuck by a needle?
A consent form to be signed for Hep B - C and HIV
Swelling and tenderness of one or more salivary glands
1.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients
Feces of infected people or animals


18. Who needs Standard Contact and Droplet precautions
MEASLES - GERMAN MEASLES - PARAVIRUS B19 - VARICELLA CHICKEN POX - RADIO ACTIVE ISO TOPE - HANGING CHEMO MEDS
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect room
Glanders - Lassa
A diet high in calories and low fat


19. What are the characteristics of Mumps
Swelling and tenderness of one or more salivary glands
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots
Feces of infected people or animals
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)


20. What is warn when suctioning?
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease
Pencillins - Cephalosporins - Clindamycin
Swelling and tenderness of one or more salivary glands


21. Who shouldn't get the measles vacc
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield
Coumadin/ Heparin - DIC - Hemophila - Chemo - Problem w/ bone marrow - Cancer - Liver disease - On aspirin or NSAIDS
DISCONTINUE The ATB


22. What is a GUAIAC test?
Chef
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
Within in 1 hour of exposure - but is still effective if given as late as 24 hours after exposure
Fecal/oral


23. After getting the Varicella vacc who should you teach pt's to avoid
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH
-- 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
Before the rash appears
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield


24. When CAN INFECTED Patient LEAVE TheIR ROOM
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)
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.
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
An order for and Anti Diarrhea med like Imodium


25. What Is The Rule: NEVER SEND A Patient To SURGERY ANTICOAGULANT
- Low platelets -- High PT/ PTT -- Coumadin/ Heparin ---- TURP --- PT 20 ( report to the doctor)
Coumadin/ Heparin - DIC - Hemophila - Chemo - Problem w/ bone marrow - Cancer - Liver disease - On aspirin or NSAIDS
N - V - D and Abd pain
Mask will 3 feet


26. WHen should you use standard percautions
Mask will 3 feet
MEASLES - GERMAN MEASLES - PARAVIRUS B19 - VARICELLA CHICKEN POX - RADIO ACTIVE ISO TOPE - HANGING CHEMO MEDS
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES


27. What should you wash the toilet seat with
Bleach
Pink red maculopapules
1.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients
Wash their hands before and after handling pets


28. What pt's need to use Standard - Airbourne - Contaction and Droplet Precautions (SAC D)
Small pox
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots
Before the rash appears
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO


29. Rabies pt's would need

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30. When dealing w/ a Droplet percautions pt they require
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
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask
Pink red maculopapules
Pencillins - Cephalosporins - Clindamycin


31. What would you question with a c diff pt
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)
COPD + Negative pressure room = Keep together
Contaminated food and water
An order for and Anti Diarrhea med like Imodium


32. How can you stop the spread of c diff

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33. What should a Contact Precaution pt have
1.Recieve ward must be familar w/ the disease/ treatment 2. Be alert for gender specific wards
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect room
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


34. What is the order for putting on personal protective gear?
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves
Feces of infected people or animals
COPD + Negative pressure room = Keep together
1.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients


35. How is Salmonella transmitted
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
Contaminated food and water
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask


36. What should you wear if blood is spurting?
PRIVATE - NEGATIVE PRESSURE ROOM
Gloves - gown - goggles and mask - Everything
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
Lindane - Crotmiton - Permethrine


37. How is Hep A spread
Fecal/oral
Deet spray
Coumadin/ Heparin - DIC - Hemophila - Chemo - Problem w/ bone marrow - Cancer - Liver disease - On aspirin or NSAIDS
Wrist ankles Palms - soles Forearm


38. Who needs Standard and Contact precautions (SC)
Gloves
Mask will 3 feet
Typhus - Psittacosis - Meliodosis - Shigellosis - Brucellosis
Lindane - Crotmiton - Permethrine


39. What are the char. of German measles( Rubella)
Pink red maculopapules
No vaccine if : patient has temp > 101 on antibiotics For exposure to any infection/ enlarged lymph nodes: immunoglobin given ----- for pain and discomfort Misc Facts
Chef
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.


40. What precaution are needed for Scabies pt
PRIVATE - NEGATIVE PRESSURE ROOM
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots
Before the rash appears
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation


41. To be most effective when should postexposure prophylaxis (PPE) be started?
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)
You should get tested for HIV HEP B - C @ 6 weeks - 3months - and 6 months
Within in 1 hour of exposure - but is still effective if given as late as 24 hours after exposure
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard


42. Droplet precautions
Mask will 3 feet
- Low platelets -- High PT/ PTT -- Coumadin/ Heparin ---- TURP --- PT 20 ( report to the doctor)
Private rooms or patient with same organisms
Dry cough


43. What should the nurse immediately do if she stuck by a used needle?
Small pox
N - V - D and Abd pain
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH


44. What should you wear when taking a pt's VS?
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation
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
Kopliks spots
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield


45. What patients need Droplet precautions?

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46. How would you take off Personal protective gear?
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K
A diet high in calories and low fat
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO


47. Who should get the chicken pox vaccine
Feces of infected people or animals
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
1. Unvaccinated children 12months and older 2.Susceptible non pregnant women 3. Susceptible persons living in a dorm or jail 4. International travelers
Typhus - Psittacosis - Meliodosis - Shigellosis - Brucellosis


48. What is the most common cause of ATB associated diarrhea
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept
No vaccine if : patient has temp > 101 on antibiotics For exposure to any infection/ enlarged lymph nodes: immunoglobin given ----- for pain and discomfort Misc Facts
Typhus - Psittacosis - Meliodosis - Shigellosis - Brucellosis


49. What should you teach pt's to wear for protect themselves against Lyme disease
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
Before the rash appears
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield
Deet spray


50. Who shouldn't get the Chicken pox vaccine

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