Standared and Additional Precautions (IPAC)

There are 2 tiers of recommended precautions to prevent the spread of infections in healthcare settings. What are they?

• Standard Precautions and Transmission-Based Precautions (Isolation)

• Primary and Secondary Precautions

• General and Specific Precautions

• Universal and Selective Precautions

What are Standard Precautions in health care facilities?

• A set of internationally accepted infection control measures, policies and procedures used in health care facilities.

• A list of medications given to all patients in health care facilities.

• A type of insurance policy for health care workers.

• A guideline for hospital architecture and design.

Standard Precautions help prevent the transmission of communicable diseases that can be acquired by contact with which of the following?

• Blood

• Body fluids

• Breach of skin and mucous membranes

• All of the above

True or False: Standard Precautions protect only health care professionals, not patients.

• True

• False

What is another name for Standard Precautions?

• Universal Precautions

• Contact Precautions

• Airborne Precautions

• Droplet Precautions

Standard Precautions incorporate which system?

• Body Fluid Precautions system

• Respiratory Isolation system

• Contact Transmission system

• Airborne Pathogen system

Hand Hygiene according to the '4 Moments' as described in Ontario's Just Clean Your Hands Program is an element of ________.

• Standard Precautions

• Transmission-Based Precautions

• Contact Tracing

• Personal Protective Equipment

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is used in Standard Precautions to:

• Protect staff

• Enter patient data

• Schedule appointments

• Prepare meals

Control of the Environment in Standard Precautions includes which of the following?

• Equipment reprocessing

• Patient entertainment

• Meal planning

• Staff scheduling

Administrative Controls in Standard Precautions include encouraging staff immunization, respiratory etiquette, and audits of practice.

• True

• False