Infection Control

The BEST way to prevent infection in a healthcare facility is to:

• Wash hands regularly

• Wear gloves

• Wear a clean uniform daily

• Change bed lines regularly

The nurse aide has been wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) that consists of a gown, gloves, and googles while caring for a client. The nurse aide should remove the PPE:

• By removing all of the PPE immediately after exiting the room

• By removing all of the PPE at the doorway of the client's room

• By removing the goggles and gloves inside the room and the gown on the outside of the room

• By removing the gown and gloves at the doorway and googles outside the room

The nurse aide is using an alcohol-based product to decontaminate the hands after providing care to a client. The step that is NT necessary when performing this procedure is:

• Washing the hands prior to using the alcohol-based product

• Rubbing the alcohol-based product into the hands thoroughly

• Rubbing the hands together until the hands are dry

• Covering the entire surface of the hands with the alcohol-base product

Signs and/or symptoms of an infection include

• Blood in the stool

• Food cravings and increased energy

• Fever, loss of appetite, and fatigue

• Pain in the incision after surgery

The nurse aide is caring for a client when the client unexpectedly vomits. The nurse aide believes that some of the client's vomitus went in the nurse aide's eye. The first thing the nurse aide should do is to:

• Rinse the eye and put goggles on

• Patch the eye until the client is stable and then report the incident

• Rinse the eye and then clean up the patient

• Rinse the eye and report the incident to the charge nurse at once

The nurse aide is required to wear the mask while caring for a client. The nurse aide should put on a new mask

• When the nurse aide leaves the client's room

• Whenever the mask becomes damp or soiled by client contaminants

• Every 10 minutes while the nurse aide is in the client's room

• every day the nurse aide cares for the client

The nurse aide knows that the most important way to prevent transmission of infection is to:

• Wear gloves

• Use sterile technique

• Wash hands

• Take antibiotics

A client was admitted to a healthcare facility for surgery and after surgery became ill with a urinary tract infection. The nurse aide knows that this type of infection is

• A healthcare-associated infection (HAI)

• Caused by poor kidney function

• Normal after surgery

• Contagious and requires isolation

When performing hand hygiene, the nurse aide should wash the hands

• For at least 10 minutes

• For 10-15 minutes

• For approximately 40 seconds to 1 minute

• For 3-5 minutes

A sign of infection in elderly client's that is not often seen in younger client's is :

• Confusion or delirium

• Loss of energy

• Fever

• Loss of appetite