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Nursing Review: Isolation Precautions

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  Standard Precautions / Universal Precautions Applies to ALL BODY FLUIDS Includes: 1.       HAND WASHING 2.       Personal Protective Equipment (sequence of removing PPE’s) gloves-mask-gown-eyewear-cap 3.       Safe use of sharps 4.       Removing spills of blood and body fluids 5.       Cleaning and disinfecting equipment Transmission Based Precautions • Airborne precautions A single room under negative pressure ventilation with a wash hand basin The door must be kept closed at all times except during necessary entrances and exits. Disposable paper towels A high efficiency mask, if available, should be worn when entering the room of a patient with known or suspected tuberculosis. • Droplet precautions Put on a standard mask prior to entering the isolation room.  Hands must be washed with an antisepti...

Nursing Review: Chain of Infection

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MODE OF TRANSMISSION it indicates the potential of the disease; conveyance of the agent to the host; it can be by common source transmission, contact source, air-borne transmission. There are four main routes of transmission By Contact Transmission             1. Direct contact ( person to person )             2. Indirect contact ( usually an inanimate object)             3. Droplet contact ( from coughing, sneezing, or                             talking, or talking by an infected person) By Vehicle Route ( through contaminated items)             1. Food – salmonellosis    ...

Nursing Review: Field Health Service Information System

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  Field Health Service Information System ( FHSIS)   Individual Treatment Record (ITR ) Fundamental building block or foundation FHSIS.   Target Client List (TCL) Such lists will be of considerable value to midwives/nurses in monitoring service delivery to clients in general and in particular to groups of patients identified as “targets” or “eligibles” for one or another program of the Department   Summary Table Composed of Health Program Accomplish and Morbidity Diseases   The Monthly Consolidation Table (MCT) FHSIS Reporting   Monthly Form 1.       Program report (M1) 2.       Morbidity report (M2)   Prepare by Midwife   Every 2 nd week of the month is the submission   Quarterly Form 1.       Program report (Q1) 2.       Morbidity report (Q2)   Prepared by Nurse   Every 3 rd wee...