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14 Cards in this Set
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What are the indacations for when to use Standard Precautions?
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Recommended for the care of all CLs, regardless of their diagnosis or presumed infection status.
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What is the purpose of Standard Precautions?
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Designed to provide a barrier precaution for all health-care providers-prevent the spread of infectious disease.
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On what Applications should Standard Precautions be used?
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Applies to blood, other bodily fluids, secretions, excretions, nonintact skin, and mucous membranes.
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What is the single most important means of preventing the spread of disease?
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Hand Washing
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What should be performed before and after every Cl contact, and after contact with blood, bodily fluids, or contaminated equipment.
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Hand washing.
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List seven types of Standard Precautions.
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Hand washing, Gloves, Mask and eye protection, Gown, Dospoal of sharps, Containment, Decontamination.
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What should be worn anytime contact with bodily fluids is possible?
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Gloves
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Mask and eye protection
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should be worn whenever there exeist the potential for getting splashed by bodily fluids.
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This should be worn whenever exposed skin or clothing is likely to become soiled during Cl contact.
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A gown
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What is meant by the standard precaution "Disoposal of sharps"?
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All sharp instruments and needles are disposed of in a properly labeled, puncture-resistant container.
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TRUE or FALSE. A nurse should always recap a needle before disposing of it in the proper sharps container.
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False- NEVER recap any needles at any time.
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What is meant by "containment" when talking about Standard precautions?
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Soiled linen should be placed in a leak-proof bag. Grossly contaminated refuse is placed in a red biohazard bag and placed in the appropriate receptacle.
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The type of Standard precaution involving the proper disinfection of equipment per facility guidelines, and the proper disposal of single-use equipment after use.
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Decontamination
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What kind of precautions should be used with a Cl known or suspected to have serious illnesses trasmitted by airborne droplet nuclei.
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Both Standard and airborne precautions
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