Safety Precautionsin healthcare setting

A term used in healthcare that means organisms and pathogens are present on an object; also means "dirty"; these objects must not be touched by a healthcare worker unless the worker is protected by gloves, gown, and any other required PPE.

• Sterile

• Contaminated

• Sterile Field

• Clean

A term used in healthcare to describe a method or technique for caring for patients who have communicable diseases.

• Handwashing

• Sterilization

• Transmission-based Precautions

• Bloodborne Pathogen Standards

A term used to describe a communicable disease that spreads rapidly from person to person and affects a large number of people at the same time; the disease is usually contained to a smaller geographical area.

• Epidemic

• Communicable Disease

• Pandemic

• Needlestick Safety & Prevention Act

A term in healthcare used to describe an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a high proportion of the population.

• Pandemic

• Epidemic

• Communicable Disease

• Bird Flu

These type of precautions are used on all patients; healthcare workers are to practice these types of precautions regardless on if the patient has an infection or not.

• Contact Precautions

• Airborne Precautions

• Droplet Precautions

• Standard Precautions

These types of precautions must be followed for a patient known or suspected to be infected with pathogens transmitted by large-particle droplets expelled during coughing, sneezing, talking, or laughing.

• Standard Precautions

• Droplet Precautions

• Airborne Precautions

• Contact Precautions

These types of precautions must be followed for any patients known or suspected to be infected with a pathogen that can be spread by direct contact.

• Contact Precautions

• Airborne Precautions

• Standard Precations

• Droplet Precautions

These types of precautions are used for patients known or suspected to be infected with pathogens transmitted by tiny droplets capable of traveling through air; these tiny droplets can stay in the air for up to three hours.

• Droplet Precautions

• Airborne Precautions

• Contact Precautions

• Standard Precautions

These types of precautions must be followed to protect an immunocompromised patient from getting an infection present in the environment.

• Airborne Precautions

• Protective/Reverse Isolation Precautions

• Droplet Precautions

• Contact Precautions

When entering a patient's room with this type of precaution, a healthcare worker would need to wear a fitted N-95 mask. Which type of precaution requires this type of mask?

• Contact Precautions

• Standard Precautions

• Airborne Precautions

• Droplet Precautions