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Precautions

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Standard Precautions

Used on ALL patients Includes:

› Hand washing› Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Gloves Gowns Masks and eye protection

› Needle stick safety› Sharps› Spills and splashes› Resuscitation devices› Waste and linen disposal› Injuries

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Standard Precautions

Personal protection equipment (PPE)

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Standard Precautions

Gloves

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Standard Precautions

Gowns

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Standard Precautions

Mask and Eye Protection

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Standard Precaution

Needle Stick Safety http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtZTa1sbnSQ

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Standard Precautions

Resuscitation devices

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Standard Precautions

Waste and linen disposal

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Standard Precautions

Injuries

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Bloodborne Pathogen Standard

Applies to all occupational exposure of blood or other potentially infectious material.

Blood = human blood, blood components, blood products

Blood borne pathogens = disease causing organisms in blood (Hep. B, Hep. C, HIV)

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Tuberculosis Standard

OSHA Standard to reduce occupationally transmitted/acquired TB

Requires FIT tested and training in the use of specific respiratory PPE

PPD skin test annually

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Extended Precautions

Standard Precautions PLUS Airborne Precautions

Contact Precautions

Droplet Precautions

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Extended Precautions

Transmission based precautions› Additional precautions used with patients

infected with pathogens that are spread via: airborne transmission droplet transmission direct contact

› Requires isolation

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Extended Precautions

Airborne precautions› Patient pathogens are transmitted by airborne

droplets› Specific PPEs-

fitted mask (N95 Respirator)

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Extended Precautions

Contact precautions› Patient pathogens are able to be spread by

direct or indirect contact › Specific PPEs

gloves gowns

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Extended Precautions

Droplet precautions› Used when large-particle droplets are expelled

during coughing, sneezing, talking or laughing› Specific PPEs-

mask if working within

3 feet of patient

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Extended Precautions

Protective or reverse precautions