Title: Identify various types of isolation precautions.
Course: Nurse Aide (14051) > Section: Unit III: Infection Control

Identification should include

- CDC guidelines and facility policy for when isolation precautions should be taken to contain pathogens and prevent exposure of other residents and staff
- levels of isolation precautions
  - first level – Standard Precautions
  - second level – transmission-based
- types of transmission
  - contact – transmitted by touching (e.g., skin or wound infections, feces, respiratory secretions)
  - droplet – transmitted by droplets from mouth or nose (e.g., influenza, strep throat, pneumonia)
  - airborne – transmitted through air (e.g., tuberculosis, chicken pox)
- common infectious agents (e.g., MRSA, VRE, C. Diff).