Demonstration should include the
- identification of the primary roles of
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- The Joint Commission regarding safety and health precautions for patients and employees in the healthcare environment.
Demonstration of Standard Precautions should include the
- use of protective barriers, such as gloves, gowns, aprons, masks, or protective eyewear
- implementation of precautions to prevent injuries caused by needles, scalpels, and other sharp instruments or devices.
Demonstration of Transmission-Based Precautions should include the following precautions:
- To prevent airborne transmission
- special air handling and ventilation systems
- particulate respirators
- To prevent droplet transmission
- single-patient room or curtained space for patient
- mask for patient during transport
- change of mask and other protective attire and performance of hand hygiene between contact with infected patient and contact with other patients
- To prevent contact transmission
- hand hygiene
- donning of PPE before room entry and discarding before exiting the patient’s room
- cleaning and disinfection of patient-care devices and instruments and other sources of indirect transmission after patient contact
Process/Skill Questions
- What is the difference between Standard Precautions and universal precautions?
- What is the role of the CDC in protecting healthcare personnel and patients?
- What are examples of airborne infections and of infections transmitted by droplets? How do the transmission precautions differ for these two types of infections?
- What is the difference between direct and indirect contact transmission of infection? What are examples of each? What precautions are necessary for each?