Test your basic knowledge |

NCLEX Lpn Infection Control

Subjects : nclex, health-sciences, nursing

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. What are the S/S for Botulism
Dry cough
N - V - D and Abd pain
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield

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

3. Rule: Transferring ADULT To PEDIATRIC WARDS
Contaminated food and water
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. Patient which are UNSTABLE 2. Unknown diagnosis 3. Patient whose condition is made worse by stress
Mask will 3 feet

4. Who needs Standard and Contact precautions (SC)
Those with liver problems and pregnant women
1. Unvaccinated children 12months and older 2.Susceptible non pregnant women 3. Susceptible persons living in a dorm or jail 4. International travelers
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.
Typhus - Psittacosis - Meliodosis - Shigellosis - Brucellosis

5. What kind of diet is needed for a PT with hepatitis A
Oral Flagyl and and Vancomycin
1. Unvaccinated children 12months and older 2.Susceptible non pregnant women 3. Susceptible persons living in a dorm or jail 4. International travelers
A diet high in calories and low fat
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield

6. What should a Contact Precaution pt have
Bleach
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect room
Deet spray
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH

7. Transferring Patient BETWEEN WARDS
Oral Flagyl and and Vancomycin
1.Recieve ward must be familar w/ the disease/ treatment 2. Be alert for gender specific wards
Kopliks spots
Rest - warm - humid air

8. Droplet precautions
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
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs
N - V - D and Abd pain

9. How can you stop the spread of c diff

10. 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.
A
1. Patient which are UNSTABLE 2. Unknown diagnosis 3. Patient whose condition is made worse by stress
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect room

11. Who is not able to start PPE
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 rooms or patient with same organisms
Those with liver problems and pregnant women
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)

12. What should you wear when drawing blood
Gloves
COPD + Negative pressure room = Keep together
MEASLES - GERMAN MEASLES - PARAVIRUS B19 - VARICELLA CHICKEN POX - RADIO ACTIVE ISO TOPE - HANGING CHEMO MEDS
Pink red maculopapules

13. How is Salmonella transmitted
Contaminated food and water
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days

14. How is Hep A spread
Gown and gloves and disinfectant all the equipments
1. Unvaccinated children 12months and older 2.Susceptible non pregnant women 3. Susceptible persons living in a dorm or jail 4. International travelers
You should get tested for HIV HEP B - C @ 6 weeks - 3months - and 6 months
Fecal/oral

15. CONDITIONS REQUIRED SEIZURE PRECAUTIONS

16. What other ATB might be prescribed to treat c diff
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
Gown and gloves and disinfectant all the equipments
Oral Flagyl and and Vancomycin

17. What should the nurse immediately do if she stuck by a used needle?
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept
MEASLES - GERMAN MEASLES - PARAVIRUS B19 - VARICELLA CHICKEN POX - RADIO ACTIVE ISO TOPE - HANGING CHEMO MEDS
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

18. How is c diff transmitted?
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB
COPD + Negative pressure room = Keep together
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation

19. What is the most common cause of ATB associated diarrhea
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)
Oral Flagyl and and Vancomycin
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K

20. When should you use Airborne Precautions
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB
5 shots - Immunoglobulins are given - but if there showing symtoms it's too late
PRIVATE - NEGATIVE PRESSURE ROOM

21. What patients need Droplet precautions?

22. When is a pt w/measles most contagious?
Those with liver problems and pregnant women
Private room with negative pressure
Before the rash appears
A consent form to be signed for Hep B - C and HIV

23. Who shouldn't get the measles vacc
HIV - HEP B - C - Cytmegalovirus
Those with liver problems and pregnant women
Deet spray
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever

24. What Is The Rule: NEVER SEND A Patient To SURGERY ANTICOAGULANT
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
- Low platelets -- High PT/ PTT -- Coumadin/ Heparin ---- TURP --- PT 20 ( report to the doctor)
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO

25. What is the two diseased caused by ticks
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact
Rest - warm - humid air
Typhus - Psittacosis - Meliodosis - Shigellosis - Brucellosis

26. Where can you find Salmonella
1.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard
Feces of infected people or animals

27. To be most effective when should postexposure prophylaxis (PPE) be started?
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
Within in 1 hour of exposure - but is still effective if given as late as 24 hours after exposure
1.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients
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.

28. Who should get the chicken pox vaccine
Blue - Blue - green - GREEN means negative
1. Unvaccinated children 12months and older 2.Susceptible non pregnant women 3. Susceptible persons living in a dorm or jail 4. International travelers
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)
Chef

29. Infected Air - borne precaution
1.Recieve ward must be familar w/ the disease/ treatment 2. Be alert for gender specific wards
A
Private room with negative pressure
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots

30. What type of job should a person with hepatitis never have
Rest - warm - humid air
Chef
Private rooms or patient with same organisms
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs

31. Who needs Standard Contact and Droplet precautions
Private room with negative pressure
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
-- 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
Glanders - Lassa

32. After a bloodborne pathogen exposure what should be done later?
Private rooms or patient with same organisms
You should get tested for HIV HEP B - C @ 6 weeks - 3months - and 6 months
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
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

33. What should you teach pt's to wear for protect themselves against Lyme disease
Swelling and tenderness of one or more salivary glands
Deet spray
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept
Rest - warm - humid air

34. What are the char. of German measles( Rubella)
Small pox
Private room with negative pressure
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
Pink red maculopapules

35. BLEEDING PRECAUTION Patient. These Patients Who Are On...
5 shots - Immunoglobulins are given - but if there showing symtoms it's too late
Coumadin/ Heparin - DIC - Hemophila - Chemo - Problem w/ bone marrow - Cancer - Liver disease - On aspirin or NSAIDS
Feces of infected people or animals
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool

36. If aptient is going to surgery do not give them
Contaminated food and water
Those with liver problems and pregnant women
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K

37. How can you prevent Salmonella
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask
A diet high in calories and low fat
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs

38. What kind of room would an Airborne precaution pt need
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.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept
PRIVATE - NEGATIVE PRESSURE ROOM
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

39. Identify the type of precaution required
MEASLES - GERMAN MEASLES - PARAVIRUS B19 - VARICELLA CHICKEN POX - RADIO ACTIVE ISO TOPE - HANGING CHEMO MEDS
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
Wash their hands before and after handling pets
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard

40. How would you take off Personal protective gear?
N - V - D and Abd pain
Wrist ankles Palms - soles Forearm
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask
Gloves - gown - goggles and mask - Everything

41. What should you wash the toilet seat with
Bleach
Lindane - Crotmiton - Permethrine
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

42. When To USE STAndARD PRECAUTIONS
DISCONTINUE The ATB
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
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. Cirrhosis encephalopathy 2. PIH (pregenancy induced hypertension) 3. DT'S (delirium tremors) 4. ICP 5. CVA 6. Meningitis 7. Brian surgery 8. head trauma

43. After getting the Varicella vacc who should you teach pt's to avoid
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K
Coumadin/ Heparin - DIC - Hemophila - Chemo - Problem w/ bone marrow - Cancer - Liver disease - On aspirin or NSAIDS
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO

44. Contact Precautions
5 shots - Immunoglobulins are given - but if there showing symtoms it's too late
Wrist ankles Palms - soles Forearm
HIV - HEP B - C - Cytmegalovirus
Gown and gloves and disinfectant all the equipments

45. Where would you see a rash w/ Rocky mountain spotted fever?
Bleach
Those with liver problems and pregnant women
Wrist ankles Palms - soles Forearm
1. Unvaccinated children 12months and older 2.Susceptible non pregnant women 3. Susceptible persons living in a dorm or jail 4. International travelers

46. What is the order for putting on personal protective gear?
Deet spray
1. Oldest child 1st 2. No communicable diseases 3. Not immunocompromised 4. No teaching needed]
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
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves

47. What are the major ATB associated w/ c diff
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)
Pencillins - Cephalosporins - Clindamycin
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. Patient which are UNSTABLE 2. Unknown diagnosis 3. Patient whose condition is made worse by stress

48. WHen should you use standard percautions
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
Private room with negative pressure
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH

49. Rule: What YOU CAN USE When Patient GOING To SURGERY And Which MED YOU CAN HOLD
-- 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
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)

50. What colors indicate blood in the stool when doing GUAIAC test
Gown and gloves and disinfectant all the equipments
Within in 1 hour of exposure - but is still effective if given as late as 24 hours after exposure
Blue - Blue - green - GREEN means negative
A