2020 HESI PN FUNDAMENTALS FINAL REVIEW
2020 HESI PN FUNDAMENTALS FINAL REVIEW
Handwashing - The single most effective way to stop the spread of
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Medical Asepsis - Reducing the number of organisms in an environment (ex. cleaning the tub with disinfectant before giving a patient a bath)
Sterilization - Breaks the chain of infection at its various links of reservoir and the portal exit (removes all organisms)
Standard Precautions are? - The principle of infection control that considers every client's blood and body fluid infectious
When should you wash your hands? - Between patients and foaming in and out of patient's rooms
Why should you hold your hands lower than your forearms while handwashing? - Water flows from the least contaminated to the most contaminated
Hand hygiene - Breaks the chain of infection Nosocomial infections - Hospital-acquired infections
What are the phases of infection? - Pathogen, reservoir, portal of exit, means of transmission, portal of entry, new host
When is a patient most contagious? - Within the first 24 hours and 24 hours after starting medication
Wear gown, gloves, and educate the family when? - Caring for a contagious person (ex. C-diff)
Standard Precautions - Group of safety measures performed to prevent the transmission of pathogens found in the blood and body fluids (ex. performing hand hygiene, wearing appropriate protective equipment if exposure is possible, and using cough etiquette)
Transmission-Based Precautions - Used to prevent the spread of known infection to patients or health care staff and are used when a patient has a communicable illness that can be spread through contact, respiratory droplets, or the air. (Wearing gowns, gloves, masks, eye protection, and possibly head covers are used to prevent transmission of pathogens)
Isolation Precautions - Placing an infectious patient in a private room with a private toilet and equipment breaks the chain of infection the portal of exit. All equipment taken into the rooms for use must be left in the room for this patient's use only and sterilized before used for any other patients.
Droplet Precautions - Use when in close contact with respiratory or mucous membrane secretions
Proper way to remove a gown? - Grasp the neckline to remove
Always use what to clean areas that are used by multiple patients? - A disinfectant (ex. bathtub, bedside tables)
How often should person cares be done? - A minimum of every morning and evening
Morning routine cares include? - Assisting with bath, toileting, oral care, hair care, dressing, bedding
HS (Night Cares) include? - Assist to prepare for sleep, assist with toileting, offer fluids if allowed, straighten room, dim lights, back massage
How often should oral cares and repositioning be done on an unresponsive patient? - Every 2 hours.
When and why should back rubs be given? - Backrubs should be done during skin care to improve venous circulation and promote relaxation (also done before bed and during a bed bath, remember dying patients also)
Ted stockings are also called what? - Thromboembolic (antiembolism) stockings What are Ted stockings for? - Prevention of blood clots, reduce swelling, and edema How do Ted stockings work? - They work by providing venous circulation to the heart.
Difference between an open and closed bed? - An open bed has sheets turned down and ready to be occupied where a closed bed is fully dressed [Show Less]