Directions:
Hospitals and other healthcare settings will often implement
Transmission-Based Precautions
to prevent or help reduce the spread of infections to healthcare 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 report on. Research your selection and provide answers to the following questions: When should the precaution be implemented? What type of PPE should be used by a health care worker providing care to the patient? Are there any other considerations that apply when caring for a patient with this type of precaution? Finally, list some examples of diseases that fall into this category.
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1. Directions:
Hospitals and other healthcare settings will often implement
Transmission-Based Precautions
to prevent or help reduce the spread of infections to healthcare
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 report on. Research your selection and provide answers to the
following questions: When should the precaution be
implemented? What type of PPE should be used by a health care
worker providing care to the patient? Are there any other
considerations that apply when caring for a patient with this
type of precaution? Finally, list some examples of diseases that
fall into this category.
