Hospitals and other health care settings will often implement Transmission-Based
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Hospitals and other health care settings will often implement Transmission-Based Precautions to prevent or help reduce the spread of infections to health care workers, as well other patients in their care. These Transmission-Based Precautions are designed to supplement standard precautions in patients/residents with documented or suspected infection/colonization of highly transmissible or epidemiologically important pathogens. The three categories of Transmission-Based Precautions include:
Contact Precautions
Droplet Precautions
Airborne Precautions
For your initial post, choose one of the Transmission based Precautions listed above to research. Include what the definition of the precaution is, when it would be implemented and what type of personal protective equipment (PPE) a health care worker would be required to wear when coming in contact with a patient under that particular precaution.
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Contact precaution
contact precautions are those which are applied to the patient who is diagnosed or suspected for a particular infection which are transmitted via direct or indirect contact by touchitouching the person or using his personal things.
1. The person should be kept in a separate room so that infection can not pass to the other patients in the room.
2. Gloves should be used to touch or examine the patient
3. Mask and eye caps should be weared to prevent any spiling of contaminents while adminstring any medication.
4. Things like thermometer sethescope are reversed for that person only which should not be used to other person's.
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