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NCLEX Lpn Infection Control

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1. What are the characteristics of Mumps
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
Chef
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots
Swelling and tenderness of one or more salivary glands

2. How would you take off Personal protective gear?
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease
Mask will 3 feet
1.Gloves 2.Goggles 3.Gown 4.Mask
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)

3. What should a Contact Precaution pt have
Disposable dinnerware - GLOVES/GOWN ALWAYS - need dedicated equipment and disinfect room
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots
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
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.

4. To be most effective when should postexposure prophylaxis (PPE) be started?
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
1St provide care 2nd notify MD ( medical doctor
Within in 1 hour of exposure - but is still effective if given as late as 24 hours after exposure
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days

5. What are the major ATB associated w/ c diff
Private room with negative pressure
Pencillins - Cephalosporins - Clindamycin
Before the rash appears
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH

6. What should the school teacher teach kids handleing pets
Oral Flagyl and and Vancomycin
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
Blue - Blue - green - GREEN means negative
Wash their hands before and after handling pets

7. What should you wear when taking a pt's VS?
- 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
Nothing unless the pt is in isolation
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

8. What should you teach pt's to wear for protect themselves against Lyme disease
A consent form to be signed for Hep B - C and HIV
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs
Feces of infected people or animals
Deet spray

9. Who shouldn't get the measles vacc
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
Pink red maculopapules
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever

10. What other ATB might be prescribed to treat c diff
Swelling and tenderness of one or more salivary glands
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever
Oral Flagyl and and Vancomycin
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact

11. What is warn when suctioning?
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB
Mask will 3 feet
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs

12. Which Patient CAN KEEP In The SAME ROOM
Pencillins - Cephalosporins - Clindamycin
1. Patient which are UNSTABLE 2. Unknown diagnosis 3. Patient whose condition is made worse by stress
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease
COPD + Negative pressure room = Keep together

13. Droplet precautions
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
Rocky mountain fever and Lymes disease
Mask will 3 feet

14. Who needs Standard Contact and Droplet precautions
1.Recieve ward must be familar w/ the disease/ treatment 2. Be alert for gender specific wards
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
Glanders - Lassa
Chef

15. DON'T TRANSFER Which Patient
N - V - D and Abd pain
Coumadin/ Heparin - DIC - Hemophila - Chemo - Problem w/ bone marrow - Cancer - Liver disease - On aspirin or NSAIDS
Deet spray
1. Patient which are UNSTABLE 2. Unknown diagnosis 3. Patient whose condition is made worse by stress

16. What type of job should a person with hepatitis never have
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact
Chef

17. Which pt's can't the pregnant nurse care for
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
MEASLES - GERMAN MEASLES - PARAVIRUS B19 - VARICELLA CHICKEN POX - RADIO ACTIVE ISO TOPE - HANGING CHEMO MEDS
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever
You should get tested for HIV HEP B - C @ 6 weeks - 3months - and 6 months

18. Who needs Standard and Contact precautions (SC)
Examples: Airborne - droplet - contact or standard
Rest - warm - humid air
Kopliks spots
Typhus - Psittacosis - Meliodosis - Shigellosis - Brucellosis

19. Who needs Standard - Airbourne and Contact precautions
Small pox
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
Wash hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs
Private rooms or patient with same organisms

20. What should you have the patient sign after being stuck by a needle?
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
Dry cough
A consent form to be signed for Hep B - C and HIV
Lindane - Crotmiton - Permethrine

21. How can you prevent Salmonella
Gloves - gown - goggles and mask - Everything
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. 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 hands before eating - after handling pets wash fruit and through cook meat and eggs

22. What pt's need to use Standard - Airbourne - Contaction and Droplet Precautions (SAC D)
PRIVATE - NEGATIVE PRESSURE ROOM
1. Unvaccinated children 12months and older 2.Susceptible non pregnant women 3. Susceptible persons living in a dorm or jail 4. International travelers
EBOLI - MARBAR - CRIMEAN CONGO
Contact which are gloves and gown - Toes - wet - warm - spots

23. What are the characteristics of Chicken pox Varicella?
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
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
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs

24. What should you wear when drawing blood
Gloves - Goggles and a face shield
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K
Gloves
Within in 1 hour of exposure - but is still effective if given as late as 24 hours after exposure

25. WHen should you use standard percautions
DISCONTINUE The ATB
Gloves
BLOOD - All BODY FLUIDS - NON INTACT SKIN - MUCOUS MEMBRANES
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C

26. CONDITIONS REQUIRED SEIZURE PRECAUTIONS

27. What are characteristics of Measles (Rubeola)
Kopliks spots
HIV - HEP B - C - Cytmegalovirus
Gloves - gown - goggles and mask - Everything
COPD + Negative pressure room = Keep together

28. Who shouldn't get the Chicken pox vaccine

29. 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.
Dry cough
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.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept

30. What are char of Pertussis( whooping cough)
Dry cough
Chef
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

31. BLEEDING PRECAUTION Patient. These Patients Who Are On...
Wrist ankles Palms - soles Forearm
Chef
- 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

32. When is a pt w/measles most contagious?
1.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients
Before the rash appears
1. Oldest child 1st 2. No communicable diseases 3. Not immunocompromised 4. No teaching needed]
Oral Flagyl and and Vancomycin

33. What should the nurse immediately do if she stuck by a used needle?
Typhus - Psittacosis - Meliodosis - Shigellosis - Brucellosis
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
Nausea - diarrhea and fatigue for up to 28 days
1.Properly dispose of the needle - remove gloves 2.Wash your hands 3.Alert your manager or report to the health dept

34. What is the order for putting on personal protective gear?
-- 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
Within in 1 hour of exposure - but is still effective if given as late as 24 hours after exposure
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
- REMEMBER PUT YOUR GOWN On MOM SO WE CAN GO GET YOUR GLOVES 1. Gown 2. Mask 3. Goggles 4. Gloves

35. When To USE STAndARD PRECAUTIONS
- Low platelets -- High PT/ PTT -- Coumadin/ Heparin ---- TURP --- PT 20 ( report to the doctor)
DISCONTINUE The ATB
1. Oldest child 1st 2. No communicable diseases 3. Not immunocompromised 4. No teaching needed]
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

36. Rule: Transferring ADULT To PEDIATRIC WARDS
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
Don't take anti - inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen - asparin more than 325mg a day 7days prior - Colchine - Iron - Vit C
Newborns - pregnant women - Immuncompromised pts for - 1 MONTH
Gloves - gown - goggles and mask - Everything

37. Rule: DISCHARGE DURING AN EMERGENCY
-- 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.Select patient with chronic stable conditions (EX: Pressure ulcer = Stable chronic condition) 2. Do not discharge acute surgical patients
Those with liver problems and pregnant women
Pink red maculopapules

38. How is Salmonella transmitted
Contaminated food and water
Blue - Blue - green - GREEN means negative
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
Glanders - Lassa

39. What should you wash the toilet seat with
Lindane - Crotmiton - Permethrine
Bleach
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs
Feces of infected people or animals

40. If aptient is going to surgery do not give them
C Diff( Clostridium difficle)
1.Recieve ward must be familar w/ the disease/ treatment 2. Be alert for gender specific wards
Maculopapular rash and vesicular scabs
NSAIDS/ASA - HEPARIN - COUMADIN GARLIC - GINKGO BILOBA - GINSENG And VITAMIN K

41. What are the char. of German measles( Rubella)
Pink red maculopapules
MEASLES - GERMAN MEASLES - PARAVIRUS B19 - VARICELLA CHICKEN POX - RADIO ACTIVE ISO TOPE - HANGING CHEMO MEDS
Gown and gloves and disinfectant all the equipments
PRIVATE - NEGATIVE PRESSURE ROOM

42. What are the S/S for Botulism
You should get tested for HIV HEP B - C @ 6 weeks - 3months - and 6 months
Contact you touch it you get it the nurse would touch something contaimanated then transfer it by direct pt to pt contact
N - V - D and Abd pain
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

43. What is a GUAIAC test?
Within in 1 hour of exposure - but is still effective if given as late as 24 hours after exposure
A test to decect fecal occult blood assess for hidden blood in stool
MY CHICKEN HEZ TB - Measles(RUBEOLA) - Chicken pox (VARICELLA) - Herpes zoster(SHINGLES) IMMUNOCOMPROMISIED And DISSEMINATED - TB
1. Oldest child 1st 2. No communicable diseases 3. Not immunocompromised 4. No teaching needed]

44. What is the most dangerous type of Hep?
A
People w/ egg allergies - pregnant - illness or fever
Private rooms or patient with same organisms
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

45. How can you stop the spread of c diff

46. How is Hep A spread
Private room with negative pressure
Fecal/oral
A consent form to be signed for Hep B - C and HIV
Contaminated food and water

47. What Is The Rule: NEVER SEND A Patient To SURGERY ANTICOAGULANT
Private rooms or patient with same organisms
N - V - D and Abd pain
- Low platelets -- High PT/ PTT -- Coumadin/ Heparin ---- TURP --- PT 20 ( report to the doctor)
-- 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

48. What colors indicate blood in the stool when doing GUAIAC test
1. Patient which are UNSTABLE 2. Unknown diagnosis 3. Patient whose condition is made worse by stress
1St provide care 2nd notify MD ( medical doctor
Blue - Blue - green - GREEN means negative
Pink red maculopapules

49. What kind of diet is needed for a PT with hepatitis A
Swelling and tenderness of one or more salivary glands
A diet high in calories and low fat
- 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

50. GENERAL RuleS FOR VACCINES
N - V - D and Abd pain
Glanders - Lassa
You should get tested for HIV HEP B - C @ 6 weeks - 3months - and 6 months
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