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Infection Control Standards: Key Issues and Best Practices

Learn about the latest infection control standards and practices, including disease transmission, prevention methods, and isolation guidelines. Understand the importance of handwashing, proper cleaning procedures, and protecting clients from dangerous communicable diseases. Stay informed and keep your healthcare environment safe!

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Infection Control Standards: Key Issues and Best Practices

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  1. Hiking Up the Standards: New Issues in Infection Control Connie Cavenaugh, BSN, CIC UAMS University Hospital Little Rock

  2. What Are “The Standards”? • THERE’S REALLY ONLY ONE • DO NO HARM

  3. How Can I Harm My Client? • Share my infections with them • Transfer infections from one client to another • Not accept responsibility as their healthcare professional

  4. Transmission of Disease • Host • Agent Environment

  5. Dangerous Communicable Diseases • Blood borne pathogens - HIV, Hepatitis • Tuberculosis • Meningitis • Childhood diseases - measles, chicken pox • Influenza

  6. Not Dangerous, Just Miserable Communicable Diseases • Childhood diseases - for children • Bad colds • Foodborne diseases - salmonella • Little critters - head & body lice • Skin diseases - ringworm

  7. Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure • Standard precautions • Personal protective equipment • Linen disposal • Waste disposal • Proper handling of sharps • Immunizations

  8. Cleaning Begins at “Home” • Clean, orderly work space • Clean before you start if necessary • Access to correct cleaners to use after client contact • Portable spill/cleanup kit

  9. The Most Important 15 Seconds of Your Day • Handwashing, Handwashing, Handwashing • 56% of men & 74% of women do IT after using the restroom • 22% of men & 40% of women do IT after sneezing or coughing • 36% of men and 54% of women do IT after they pet the family dog

  10. Important Things to Remember • You need the BIG 3 - soap, water, friction • It really takes 15 seconds • Alcohol foam can be used as a substitute • Lotion or even soap can be contaminated with bacteria

  11. Each One Teach One • Monkey see, monkey do. You are the head monkey • Get visual - posters, handouts • Professional students think you are the expert

  12. The Major Oops!! • If you are stuck with a needle • If you are splashed with blood or some other body fluid • If you are exposed to a contagious disease • When is it time to panic

  13. Isolation in Hospitals & Long Term Care Facilities • New CDC guidelines • Airborne precautions - TB • Droplet precautions - meningitis, measles • Contact precautions - MRSA, RSV, VRE - what do all of the letters mean?

  14. THANK YOU FOR COMING • Your Infection Control Practitioner appreciates your support

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