Week #1, Lab day #1-Infection Control & Safety

Place the items in order of donning your PPE

• gown

• mask

• eye protection (goggles or face shield)

• gloves

When is the use of hand sanitizer not effective or acceptable to cleanse hands?

• After using the bathroom

• Before eating lunch

• After caring for a patient with Clostridium Difficile

• After removing gloves

• Before entering a patients room

In medical hand washing, it is important to keep hands lower than the elbows, so that water flows from arms to the fingertips; the rationale behind this technique is:

• Prevent the nurses’ clothes to get wet which can lead to contamination

• The position is ergonomically correct

• Hands are more contaminated than forearms

• To maintain the flow of water directly in the sink and prevent splashing water to the surrounding area

What is the appropriate flow and water temperature during hand washing?

• Medium flow and hot water

• Fast flow and cool water

• Slow flow and warm water

• Medium flow and warm water

Using hand sanitizer after caring for a resident with C-Diff is just as good as washing your hands.

• True
• False 

Answer explanation

Clostridium Difficile spores are not killed by alcohol based cleansers. Hand washing with soap and water is required. When cleaning surfaces in a C. diff area, cleaners must include bleach or hydrogen peroxide.

It is ok to throw soiled linen onto the floor if you intend on cleaning the floor there after.

• True
• False

Bloodborne Pathogens can enter the body through which of the following means?

• A used syringe need stick.
• A break in the skin (cut, scrape, lesion)
• Through a mucus membrane (nose, eye, mouth)
• All of the above.

A critical, unexpected adverse event that caused severe physical or psychological harm to a patient, including death, permanent injury, or severe, temporary injury is called

• A patient safety event

• A sentinel event

• An error

• A near miss

A nurse begins the process of medication administration for her patient when she notices that her patient is allergic to the medication ordered. This is an example of

• a patient safety event

• a near miss

• a medication error

• a sentinel event

The single most important step in preventing the spread of infection is

• isolation precautions

• standard precautions

• using sterile technique

• hand hygiene