Transmission Based Precautions PDF

 

THE NCLEX CHANNEL { Transmission-Based Precautions}

Session Objectives:   Objective 1: Identify necessary personal protective equipment when following standard, airborne, contact, and droplet precautions.    Objective 2: Recognize disease processes that require airborne, contact, droplet, and neutropenic precautions.  considerations when caring for   Objective 3: Explore appropriate nursing considerations clients who require airborne, contact, droplet, and neutropenic precautions.   •

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Points of Emphasis:   Point 1: Strict handwashing is the single most important strategy to reduce the spread of infection in all health care settings.    Point 2: Health care personnel should wear a gown and gloves when entering the room of a client on contact precautions.    Point 3: Health care personnel should wear a mask for care within 3 feet of a client on droplet precautions.    Point 4: Airborne precautions requires a fit-tested N-95 respirator be worn by health care personnel while in the client’s room.   Point 5: Transport of clients on transmission-based precautions should only occur for medically necessary diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. •

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References: Arnoldussen, B., Burckhardt, J. A., Dobish, B., Finesilver, C., Gardner, P., Irwin, B. J., Mahoney, E., & Redemske, M. (2019). NCLEX-RN® content review guide: Preparation for the NCLEX-RN® examination (7th ed.). New York, NY: Kaplan Publishing. Hinkle, J. L., & Cheever, K. H. (2018). Brunner & Suddarth’s textbook of medicalsurgical nursing (14th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.

 

THE NCLEX CHANNEL Potter, P. A., Perry, A. G., G ., Stockert, P. A., & Hall, A. M. (2017). Fundamentals of nursing (9th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier. Siegel, J. D., Rhinehart E., Jackson, M., Chiarello, L., & the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (2018). Guideline for isolation  precautions: Preventing tr transmission ansmission of infectiou infectiouss agents in healthcare settings.  Retrieved from https://www.cdc.g https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncont ov/infectioncontrol/pdf/guid rol/pdf/guidelines/isolation elines/isolation-guidelines-H.pdf