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What do we want to do with chain of infection? - ✔✔break it, wash hands
How does HAI spread - ✔✔not hand washing, equipment
What PPE is worn for what isolation - ✔✔
Contact - gloves, gown
Droplet - mask, gloves, gown
standard precautions - gloves
What infections do we put in Contact isolation - ✔✔VRE, MRSA, C-Diff (with hand washing)
What kind of precautions for Airborne - ✔✔N-95, Hood
What are the rules for restraints - ✔✔check circulation every 30min
release every 2 hours
must have doctors order first
new Doctors order every 24 hours
What is best way to help with anxiety - ✔✔sit with patient, listen, use therapeutic communication
What is HIPPA, how is it broken - ✔✔-protects patients information
broken - posting on social media, looking up someone not your patient, keeping computer open
What problems come from being immobile - ✔✔weight loss, pressure sores, pneumonia
, Who is at risk for HAI - ✔✔elderly, immune compromised, low economical, children
What are the important rules for peri-care - ✔✔privacy, explain procedure, only expose what you need
to
Collaborative between nurses and doctors - ✔✔decrease risk for injury, to avoid an event where patient
has died or sustained serious injury
What is the nurse practice act - ✔✔guide lines , its our scope of practice
How do we check a tympanic temp - ✔✔up, back for an adult
What is ethics - ✔✔compassion, empathy
What pulse do we check most often - ✔✔radial
What is first thing we do after a fall - ✔✔vital signs, assessment
What do we do if we find a patient unresponsive - ✔✔check cardioid pulse
Ways to prevent CAUTI"S - ✔✔out ASAP, empty bag regularly, keep bag lower than bladder, change every
30 days, peri-care
Prone position - ✔✔laying face down
Sims position - ✔✔laying on right side, knee-thigh drawn up to chest
Dorsal recumbent - ✔✔laying on back with knees bent with feet still flat on ground