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NCLEX Lpn Infection Control

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1. What is the most dangerous type of Hep?
A
Wash their hands before and after handling pets
HIV - HEP B - C - Cytmegalovirus
1. Unvaccinated children 12months and older 2.Susceptible non pregnant women 3. Susceptible persons living in a dorm or jail 4. International travelers

2. WHen should you use standard percautions
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES
Private rooms or patient with same organisms
- Low platelets -- High PT/ PTT -- Coumadin/ Heparin ---- TURP --- PT 20 ( report to the doctor)
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

3. What should the nurse immediately do if she stuck by a used needle?
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs
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
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept

4. How can you prevent Salmonella
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs
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
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease

5. What patients need Droplet precautions?

6. After getting the Varicella vacc who should you teach pt's to avoid
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
HIV - HEP B - C - Cytmegalovirus
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH
Blue - Blue - green - GREEN means negative

7. Droplet precautions
Mask will 3 feet
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation
Feces of infected people or animals
Private rooms or patient with same organisms

8. Transferring Patient BETWEEN WARDS
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
1.Recieve ward must be familar w/ the disease/ treatment 2. Be alert for gender specific wards
Gown and gloves and disinfectant all the equipments
A

9. INTERVENTION FOR PREVENT ASPIRATION
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect 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.
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
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact

10. What should you wear if blood is spurting?
Deet spray
1St provide care 2nd notify MD ( medical doctor
Gloves - gown - goggles and mask - Everything
Before the rash appears

11. When is a pt w/measles most contagious?
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation
Before the rash appears
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves
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

12. How is Hep A spread
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard
Fecal/oral
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept
Swelling and tenderness of one or more salivary glands

13. CONDITIONS REQUIRED SEIZURE PRECAUTIONS

14. What type of job should a person with hepatitis never have
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
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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
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K

15. If aptient is going to surgery do not give them
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)

16. Rule: MED ERROR - PT INJURY OR ATTEMPT SUICIDE
1St provide care 2nd notify MD ( medical doctor
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
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask

17. Infected Air - borne precaution
Dry cough
Private room with negative pressure
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard
Gloves

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

19. How would you take off Personal protective gear?
Private rooms or patient with same organisms
DISCONTINUE The ATB
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask
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

20. What is the order for putting on personal protective gear?
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease
- 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
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

21. Who needs Standard - Airbourne and Contact precautions
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES
Fecal/oral
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect room
Small pox

22. What is the tx for Scabies
1St provide care 2nd notify MD ( medical doctor
Lindane - Crotmiton - Permethrine
Feces of infected people or animals
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs

23. What Is The Rule: NEVER SEND A Patient To SURGERY ANTICOAGULANT
-- 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
1St provide care 2nd notify MD ( medical doctor
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask
- Low platelets -- High PT/ PTT -- Coumadin/ Heparin ---- TURP --- PT 20 ( report to the doctor)

24. Rule: Transferring ADULT To PEDIATRIC WARDS
1.Recieve ward must be familar w/ the disease/ treatment 2. Be alert for gender specific wards
Feces of infected people or animals
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

25. What should you do if the c diff is linked to an ATB
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield
Dry cough
DISCONTINUE The ATB

26. What should you wear when taking a pt's VS?
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation
HIV - HEP B - C - Cytmegalovirus
-- 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

27. How can you stop the spread of c diff

28. What pt's need to use Standard - Airbourne - Contaction and Droplet Precautions (SAC D)
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB
DISCONTINUE The ATB
Typhus - Psittacosis - Meliodosis - Shigellosis - Brucellosis

29. BLEEDING PRECAUTION Patient. These Patients Who Are On...
Coumadin/ Heparin - DIC - Hemophila - Chemo - Problem w/ bone marrow - Cancer - Liver disease - On aspirin or NSAIDS
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves
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
You should get tested for HIV HEP B - C @ 6 weeks - 3months - and 6 months

30. What are the characteristics of Mumps
Coumadin/ Heparin - DIC - Hemophila - Chemo - Problem w/ bone marrow - Cancer - Liver disease - On aspirin or NSAIDS
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever
Swelling and tenderness of one or more salivary glands
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

31. Rule: What YOU CAN USE When Patient GOING To SURGERY And Which MED YOU CAN HOLD
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH
Before the rash appears
Private rooms or patient with same organisms
-- 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

32. Who shouldn't get the measles vacc
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
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
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever

33. What is a GUAIAC test?
Wash their hands before and after handling pets
HIV - HEP B - C - Cytmegalovirus
Gloves - gown - goggles and mask - Everything
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool

34. To be most effective when should postexposure prophylaxis (PPE) be started?
Private room with negative pressure
An order for and Anti Diarrhea med like Imodium
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

35. How is Salmonella transmitted
Contaminated food and water
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
You should get tested for HIV HEP B - C @ 6 weeks - 3months - and 6 months
1.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients

36. What pt's would be ok for a pregnant nurse to care for
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
HIV - HEP B - C - Cytmegalovirus
Deet spray
N - V - D and Abd pain

37. DON'T TRANSFER Which Patient
Oral Flagyl and and Vancomycin
Lindane - Crotmiton - Permethrine
Before the rash appears
1. Patient which are UNSTABLE 2. Unknown diagnosis 3. Patient whose condition is made worse by stress

38. What precaution are needed for Scabies pt
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs
Feces of infected people or animals
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots

39. 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
PRIVATE - NEGATIVE PRESSURE ROOM
Kopliks spots
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days

40. What is warn when suctioning?
Deet spray
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield
N - V - D and Abd pain
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard

41. What other ATB might be prescribed to treat c diff
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
Oral Flagyl and and Vancomycin
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
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield

42. Identify the type of precaution required
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
Blue - Blue - green - GREEN means negative
Gown and gloves and disinfectant all the equipments

43. What should a Contact Precaution pt have
MEASLES - GERMAN MEASLES - PARAVIRUS B19 - VARICELLA CHICKEN POX - RADIO ACTIVE ISO TOPE - HANGING CHEMO MEDS
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect room
- Low platelets -- High PT/ PTT -- Coumadin/ Heparin ---- TURP --- PT 20 ( report to the doctor)

44. What are common side effects of PPE
Lindane - Crotmiton - Permethrine
Private rooms or patient with same organisms
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days

45. Who is not able to start PPE
Gloves
Lindane - Crotmiton - Permethrine
1St provide care 2nd notify MD ( medical doctor
Those with liver problems and pregnant women

46. GENERAL RuleS FOR VACCINES
Blue - Blue - green - GREEN means negative
Wash their hands before and after handling pets
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
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

47. What would you question with a c diff pt
An order for and Anti Diarrhea med like Imodium
Glanders - Lassa
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
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard

48. What should you wash the toilet seat with
Kopliks spots
Glanders - Lassa
1.Recieve ward must be familar w/ the disease/ treatment 2. Be alert for gender specific wards
Bleach

49. What are characteristics of Measles (Rubeola)
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs
Kopliks spots
Those with liver problems and pregnant women
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

50. Who shouldn't get the Chicken pox vaccine