PPE (personal protective equipment) correct answers Mask, gloves, face shield, gowns, glasses
Order to put on PPE correct answers 1. Hand Hygiene
2. gown
3. mask
4. goggles or face shield
5. gloves
Order to remove PPE correct answers 1. gloves
2. goggles
3. gown
4. mask
5. hand hygiene
Environmental precautions correct answers take the correct steps to avoid spreading infection
Wash in and out (20 seconds of friction)
Alcohol-based hand rub, rub until dry correct answers
Airborne Precautions correct answers Particles that stay in the air
use: an N95 mask, and face shield, the client should be placed in a negative room air pressured to
recycle the air. Ex: TB, rubeola, SARS, chicken pox
Contact Precautions correct answers contact with contaminated items, persons, hands, clothes, or
equipment.
, use: wear gloves sometimes gowns and hand wash
Ex: lice, MRSA, scabies, draining wounds, urine and BM
Droplet Precautions correct answers body fluids that infect a person or surface
use: mask and gown
Ex: Respiratory illness, rubella, mumps, viruses
Enhanced contact precautions correct answers usually diarrhea (C-DIFF)
Use gloves, gown, mask, wash hands no hand sanitizer
Asepsis correct answers All activities to prevent or break the chain of infection
Medical asepsis correct answers CLEAN TECHNIQUE, reduces the number of germs in our
community
Surgical asepsis correct answers "Sterile technique" which Means no germs, once contaminated
no longer sterile
Ex: touching an unsterile item with sterile gloves, speaking loudly over a sterile field, turning
your back on a sterile field
HAI= Hospital-acquired infections correct answers infections you get after your stay at the
hospital due to germs in a hospital setting.
EX: UTI after catheter in too long, infected wound after knee surgery