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NCLEX Lpn Infection Control

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1. When To USE STAndARD PRECAUTIONS
Pink red maculopapules
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
-- 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
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES

2. If aptient is going to surgery do not give them
Mask will 3 feet
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation
1. Patient which are UNSTABLE 2. Unknown diagnosis 3. Patient whose condition is made worse by stress
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K

3. Who should get the chicken pox vaccine
1. Unvaccinated children 12months and older 2.Susceptible non pregnant women 3. Susceptible persons living in a dorm or jail 4. International travelers
Dry cough
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO

4. What are the characteristics of Mumps
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact
Oral Flagyl and and Vancomycin
Swelling and tenderness of one or more salivary glands
An order for and Anti Diarrhea med like Imodium

5. What are the S/S for Botulism
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
Typhus - Psittacosis - Meliodosis - Shigellosis - Brucellosis
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever

6. Who is not able to start PPE
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
Those with liver problems and pregnant women
Dry cough
Within in 1 hour of exposure - but is still effective if given as late as 24 hours after exposure

7. What should you wear if blood is spurting?
Within in 1 hour of exposure - but is still effective if given as late as 24 hours after exposure
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 - gown - goggles and mask - Everything
Coumadin/ Heparin - DIC - Hemophila - Chemo - Problem w/ bone marrow - Cancer - Liver disease - On aspirin or NSAIDS

8. When dealing w/ a Droplet percautions pt they require
Gloves
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
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K
1.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients

9. What would you question with a c diff pt
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
An order for and Anti Diarrhea med like Imodium
Pink red maculopapules
Rest - warm - humid air

10. What pt's need to use Standard - Airbourne - Contaction and Droplet Precautions (SAC D)
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield

11. How is Salmonella transmitted
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves
Gloves - gown - goggles and mask - Everything
Contaminated food and water
PRIVATE - NEGATIVE PRESSURE ROOM

12. What should the school teacher teach kids handleing pets
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
Feces of infected people or animals
Typhus - Psittacosis - Meliodosis - Shigellosis - Brucellosis
Wash their hands before and after handling pets

13. What should you do if the c diff is linked to an ATB
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation
DISCONTINUE The ATB
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs
A consent form to be signed for Hep B - C and HIV

14. To be most effective when should postexposure prophylaxis (PPE) be started?
Within in 1 hour of exposure - but is still effective if given as late as 24 hours after exposure
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs
Private room with negative pressure
Wash their hands before and after handling pets

15. Where can you find Salmonella
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation
Rest - warm - humid air
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES
Feces of infected people or animals

16. What pt's would be ok for a pregnant nurse to care for
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept
-- 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
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
HIV - HEP B - C - Cytmegalovirus

17. What is a GUAIAC test?
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
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
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool

18. What are the Ni for Pertussis?
-- 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
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES
Dry cough
Rest - warm - humid air

19. Where would you see a rash w/ Rocky mountain spotted fever?
Wrist ankles Palms - soles Forearm
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
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease

20. What should you have the patient sign after being stuck by a needle?
Private rooms or patient with same organisms
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs
A consent form to be signed for Hep B - C and HIV

21. Rule: DISCHARGE DURING AN EMERGENCY
1.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES
A
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K

22. What type of job should a person with hepatitis never have
Chef
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES
PRIVATE - NEGATIVE PRESSURE ROOM
Coumadin/ Heparin - DIC - Hemophila - Chemo - Problem w/ bone marrow - Cancer - Liver disease - On aspirin or NSAIDS

23. How can you prevent Salmonella
COPD + Negative pressure room = Keep together
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs
Chef
Pink red maculopapules

24. CONDITIONS REQUIRED SEIZURE PRECAUTIONS

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25. What is warn when suctioning?
Chef
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield
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. Oldest child 1st 2. No communicable diseases 3. Not immunocompromised 4. No teaching needed]

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

27. What are characteristics of Measles (Rubeola)
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
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask
Typhus - Psittacosis - Meliodosis - Shigellosis - Brucellosis
Kopliks spots

28. Which Patient NEED To ISOLATE
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots
A consent form to be signed for Hep B - C and HIV
Deet spray
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

29. Who shouldn't get the Chicken pox vaccine

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30. What should a Contact Precaution pt have
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield
Rest - warm - humid air
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect room
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever

31. When is a pt w/measles most contagious?
Wrist ankles Palms - soles Forearm
Before the rash appears
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
Lindane - Crotmiton - Permethrine

32. 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)
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
PRIVATE - NEGATIVE PRESSURE ROOM
Glanders - Lassa

33. Identify the type of precaution required
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact
Pencillins - Cephalosporins - Clindamycin
Feces of infected people or animals
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard

34. Rule: MED ERROR - PT INJURY OR ATTEMPT SUICIDE
Pencillins - Cephalosporins - Clindamycin
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect room
1St provide care 2nd notify MD ( medical doctor
Gloves

35. What colors indicate blood in the stool when doing GUAIAC test
Private rooms or patient with same organisms
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES
Blue - Blue - green - GREEN means negative

36. Who needs Standard and Contact precautions (SC)
Lindane - Crotmiton - Permethrine
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
Typhus - Psittacosis - Meliodosis - Shigellosis - Brucellosis
Deet spray

37. What precaution are needed for Scabies pt
PRIVATE - NEGATIVE PRESSURE ROOM
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots
An order for and Anti Diarrhea med like Imodium
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves

38. patient what kind of room they should stay
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves
Private rooms or patient with same organisms
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
Bleach

39. Who needs Standard - Airbourne and Contact precautions
1.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
Small pox
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease

40. What are char of Pertussis( whooping cough)
Dry cough
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact
Deet spray
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots

41. Rule: Transferring ADULT To PEDIATRIC WARDS
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
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
Wrist ankles Palms - soles Forearm
Those with liver problems and pregnant women

42. How is c diff transmitted?
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
Small pox
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. Who shouldn't get the measles vacc
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect room
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever
Feces of infected people or animals

44. What is the most common cause of ATB associated diarrhea
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)
1.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients
Dry cough

45. How would you take off Personal protective gear?
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask
Contaminated food and water
1St provide care 2nd notify MD ( medical doctor
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C

46. Droplet precautions
Mask will 3 feet
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots
1. Oldest child 1st 2. No communicable diseases 3. Not immunocompromised 4. No teaching needed]
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect room

47. Rabies pt's would need

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48. When should you use Airborne Precautions
Wash their hands before and after handling pets
Gloves
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
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB

49. After a bloodborne pathogen exposure what should be done later?
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB
You should get tested for HIV HEP B - C @ 6 weeks - 3months - and 6 months
Swelling and tenderness of one or more salivary glands

50. How is Hep A spread
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
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
Fecal/oral
5 shots - Immunoglobulins are given - but if there showing symtoms it's too late