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NCLEX Lpn Infection Control

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1. Which pt's can't the pregnant nurse care for
Wrist ankles Palms - soles Forearm
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
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield
MEASLES - GERMAN MEASLES - PARAVIRUS B19 - VARICELLA CHICKEN POX - RADIO ACTIVE ISO TOPE - HANGING CHEMO MEDS

2. After getting the Varicella vacc who should you teach pt's to avoid
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH

3. What patients need Droplet precautions?

4. Rule: DISCHARGE DURING AN EMERGENCY
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
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves
1.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients

5. What are char of Pertussis( whooping cough)
Chef
Dry cough
A
Small pox

6. Who shouldn't get the Chicken pox vaccine

7. What is the tx for Scabies
Deet spray
Lindane - Crotmiton - Permethrine
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard

8. What are the char. of German measles( Rubella)
Pink red maculopapules
An order for and Anti Diarrhea med like Imodium
Wash their hands before and after handling pets
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield

9. What should you wear when taking a pt's VS?
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
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation
Dry cough
Gloves - gown - goggles and mask - Everything

10. INTERVENTION FOR PREVENT ASPIRATION
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
PRIVATE - NEGATIVE PRESSURE ROOM
Feces of infected people or animals
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask

11. What are common side effects of PPE
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect room
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
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.

12. Rule: Transferring ADULT To PEDIATRIC WARDS
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
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
Chef
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO

13. What is the most dangerous type of Hep?
A
Lindane - Crotmiton - Permethrine
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.
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves

14. What kind of room would an Airborne precaution pt need
Wrist ankles Palms - soles Forearm
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
PRIVATE - NEGATIVE PRESSURE ROOM
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES

15. What should the nurse immediately do if she stuck by a used needle?
Gloves
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard

16. What should the school teacher teach kids handleing pets
Wash their hands before and after handling pets
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
Before the rash appears
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever

17. What pt's would be ok for a pregnant nurse to care for
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
HIV - HEP B - C - Cytmegalovirus
Contaminated food and water
Wrist ankles Palms - soles Forearm

18. What other ATB might be prescribed to treat c diff
Bleach
1St provide care 2nd notify MD ( medical doctor
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)
Oral Flagyl and and Vancomycin

19. patient what kind of room they should stay
Private rooms or patient with same organisms
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
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots
1.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients

20. After a bloodborne pathogen exposure what should be done later?
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
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
You should get tested for HIV HEP B - C @ 6 weeks - 3months - and 6 months

21. What Is The Rule: NEVER SEND A Patient To SURGERY ANTICOAGULANT
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH
- Low platelets -- High PT/ PTT -- Coumadin/ Heparin ---- TURP --- PT 20 ( report to the doctor)

22. WHen should you use standard percautions
-- 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
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES

23. Identify the type of precaution required
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect room
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard
-- 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
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever

24. Rabies pt's would need

25. What would you question with a c diff pt
Contaminated food and water
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves
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
An order for and Anti Diarrhea med like Imodium

26. Infected Air - borne precaution
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K
Private room with negative pressure
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
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease

27. When should you use Airborne Precautions
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
Feces of infected people or animals
Private room with negative pressure
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB

28. Where would you see a rash w/ Rocky mountain spotted fever?
A consent form to be signed for Hep B - C and HIV
1.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients
Wrist ankles Palms - soles Forearm
Fecal/oral

29. How can you prevent Salmonella
Kopliks spots
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs
Gown and gloves and disinfectant all the equipments
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept

30. Who should get the chicken pox vaccine
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH
Chef
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact
1. Unvaccinated children 12months and older 2.Susceptible non pregnant women 3. Susceptible persons living in a dorm or jail 4. International travelers

31. How is c diff transmitted?
-- 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
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard
PRIVATE - NEGATIVE PRESSURE ROOM

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

33. What is the most common cause of ATB associated diarrhea
Those with liver problems and pregnant women
Oral Flagyl and and Vancomycin
Wash their hands before and after handling pets
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)

34. When is a pt w/measles most contagious?
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.
Before the rash appears
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
MEASLES - GERMAN MEASLES - PARAVIRUS B19 - VARICELLA CHICKEN POX - RADIO ACTIVE ISO TOPE - HANGING CHEMO MEDS

35. 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
Private room with negative pressure
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
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever

36. When To USE STAndARD PRECAUTIONS
Wrist ankles Palms - soles Forearm
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves
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
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

37. What precaution are needed for Scabies pt
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots
-- 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
Small pox
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C

38. If aptient is going to surgery do not give them
Feces of infected people or animals
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever
Deet spray
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K

39. Who is not able to start PPE
Feces of infected people or animals
1.Recieve ward must be familar w/ the disease/ treatment 2. Be alert for gender specific wards
Private rooms or patient with same organisms
Those with liver problems and pregnant women

40. What colors indicate blood in the stool when doing GUAIAC test
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs
MEASLES - GERMAN MEASLES - PARAVIRUS B19 - VARICELLA CHICKEN POX - RADIO ACTIVE ISO TOPE - HANGING CHEMO MEDS
Blue - Blue - green - GREEN means negative
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots

41. What is warn when suctioning?
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
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
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield

42. Which Patient NEED To ISOLATE
Kopliks spots
Rest - warm - humid air
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
- Low platelets -- High PT/ PTT -- Coumadin/ Heparin ---- TURP --- PT 20 ( report to the doctor)

43. How would you take off Personal protective gear?
1. Unvaccinated children 12months and older 2.Susceptible non pregnant women 3. Susceptible persons living in a dorm or jail 4. International travelers
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease
1. Oldest child 1st 2. No communicable diseases 3. Not immunocompromised 4. No teaching needed]
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask

44. What should a Contact Precaution pt have
Typhus - Psittacosis - Meliodosis - Shigellosis - Brucellosis
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect room
1St provide care 2nd notify MD ( medical doctor
Dry cough

45. CONDITIONS REQUIRED SEIZURE PRECAUTIONS

46. How is Salmonella transmitted
Mask will 3 feet
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
Contaminated food and water
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

47. What should you wash the toilet seat with
Bleach
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
Wash their hands before and after handling pets

48. What type of job should a person with hepatitis never have
Wash their hands before and after handling pets
Chef
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
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots

49. What pt's need to use Standard - Airbourne - Contaction and Droplet Precautions (SAC D)
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB
Gloves
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO
Before the rash appears

50. DON'T TRANSFER Which Patient
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
Before the rash appears
1. Patient which are UNSTABLE 2. Unknown diagnosis 3. Patient whose condition is made worse by stress
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves